AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by hamdingers on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:29AM (#46669147)

> My work involves reading papers

And yet you did not read this essay, or at least did not understand it.

Whatever LLM you used to summarize it has let you down. I wonder how often that is happening in your day to day work, perhaps that's why you feel your job is at risk.

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by whimsicalism on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:32AM (#46669173)

I am commenting on something in the background space of assumptions of the essay. Just because it is not the main thrust doesn’t mean I didnt read the article or used an LLM to summarize it for me. Take care

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by hamdingers on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:36AM (#46669207)

> I am addressing an argument I know I can win, not the one the author made.

Great. Good faith all around. Take care.

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by jsnell on Sunday January 18, 2026 @03:23PM (#46671774)

Faking quotes like you're doing there is about as bad faith as it gets.

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by hamdingers on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:48PM (#46673798)

What do you mean "faking quotes?" Are you genuinely unfamiliar with the concept of paraphrase?

If you have an issue with my interpretation of their comment feel free to share, don't feign childlike naivety.

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by jsnell on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:19AM (#46679951)

I would have thought that my issue with what you did was pretty clear from the original message, and would not require any particularly sophisticated interpretation.

">" is the notation for quotes.

You did not use it for a quote. Instead you used it to present your own distortion (not a paraphrase) as whimsicalism's words. That is not cool. Stop doing it.

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by hamdingers on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:34AM (#46680102)

Given the points I can see, other people understood what I was saying and appreciated it. I'm sorry that you're so confused but make no mistake this is your problem, not mine.

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