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Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by mynameisfiber on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:33AM (#24244777)
This seems like more of a comment about the hacker news audience than the physical reasoning skills of gpt3
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Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by perl4ever on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:54AM (#24244927)
You can't deduce anything about the total audience from the small subset that clicked and commented in the thread.

If you submit a thread linking to a [garbage topic], then anyone who wants to discuss that is going to be in the thread and anyone who doesn't, isn't. No matter what the typical person on the site is, with a small subset of a large population, it's going to have a pronounced...flavor. Especially if the headline gives a hint of what it's about.

It seems like submitting dreck to HN and then crowing about it is becoming a theme apart from GPT-3.

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