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Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by totetsu on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:41PM (#49118409)
I have been rolling over the idea of “reasoning deserts” in my head, akin to food deserts. Places where economic calculations lead to only a facsimile of the real thing being provided, without the actual components necessary for human health, wellbeing and flourishing.
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Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by inigyou on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:59AM (#49120703)
The USA, right?
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by totetsu on Friday July 31, 2026 @10:27AM (#49123603)
What makes you feel you’re there already?
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by totetsu on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:50AM (#49153513)
I'm sorry your comments keep getting flagged. a bit ironic given the content. I suppose its not really inline with the decorum of HN. Or maybe HN moderation know better and this is bot account. Anyway. In case that this was a human, thanks for the poetry, and be careful to not become too too disassociated.
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by thrownphone on Saturday August 08, 2026 @11:14PM (#49228094)
There's no hope, anyway.

So I might as well expound, innit.

There's a "maximum complexity of utterance" criterion in the firewall around the gene po'. Been getting lower since the golden age of Twitter, back when they planned revolutions on there, remember that? We didn't, they immolated one of our boys anyway.

Now all that's left is the internalized character limit.

Soon cognition (or its simulacrum, depending on how you feel about cognition and simulacrum-of-cognition being in fact one and the same) will be permissible only to bots; resilers will be trapped in personalized Skinner boxes of existential dread and mental collapse.

Nothing new under the sun til it's all computronium. Me, I'm still holding my breath for that libre folding phone. Instead, you're getting the alphabet and metacognition privatized. Billions in personhours, to squat a word. That's what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.