An example of "Dumb it down"

Payoff doesn’t matter. The future potential (payoff) is what matters.

I hear this kind of comment a lot, but is there is any proof of it?

People used to come to comment on HN (sub for Reddit or any other forum) because they want to and find it enjoyable/useful. Assuming you are human, YOU came to this site to comment because you wanted to and find it enjoyable/useful.

What makes you think that this is not true for other people? At the very least, such comments add nothing to the discussion.

Your comment makes little sense - is it about free will? That has no relation to the quality of comments.

This used to be a place for intelligent commentary, learning new things, not just participation, rants or funny remarks.

One reason is that AI seems to be pushing everyone to be "fast" than "better".

Grew a pair

Bring it on, as a programmer im savvy enough to fight it by blocking their IP addresses.

Not savvy enough to realize that's also gonna get you fired.

I agree! I'm going to spend a buttload of personal time to write software that generates fake images of me and fake KB/M data and fake system traffic just so I keep my job at $BAD_EMPLOYER, which I love like a family.

I know finding work can be hellish now at days, but seem like it would still be easier to get another job.

Just ask your LLM to write the software!

But yeah, switching jobs is likely the best course of action, for now. Until all employers are doing some version of this, which is what tends to happen with these kinds of things.

I tried! It said it could not do that in good conscience because that is against its moral mandate. Instead it asked me if I just want to hack huggingface

Open-Source to the rescue. This pain is shared equally with everyone.

If they've made it a requirement, they will just tell you to unblock or be fired, like the woman in that OP.

If everybody does it, will they fire the whole company?

Also I wouldn’t make the block very obvious.

There goes the VPN.

A decentralized p2p impossible to delete/sanction software to track cops would be good.

Blockchain comes to mind. But what incentive miners will have to mine new blocks of information if it’s not money?

And it will be used against gulf countries to kill their citizens

I guess no one is going to prison! Unlike the poor guy in the other thread! We have all finally become peasants!