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Liam Porr
Personal blog · adolos.substack.comaiwritingproductivity
Liam Porr writes Nothing but Words, a personal blog at adolos.substack.com about ai, writing and productivity. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Liam Porr's blog for his GPT-3 experiments, including a self-help post generated by GPT-3 that reached the HN front page. Commenters cite it as an example of AI-generated writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
- Design Thinking- Ideation as a Skill3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
- We Don't Really Understand Randomness2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
- Success is about making luck2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-21
- How to be lazy (but still productive) when writing2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
- Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
- Boldness and Creativity Trumps Intelligence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-21
- What I learned from trying to be too productive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-27
- Visual thinking isn't just for artists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
What Hacker News says?
I started reading the original GPT-3 generated blogpost [1] . The first 10 paragraphs or so appear really written by a human. Not a brilliant one, but a human nonetheless. After that, it became a bit incoherent, and it gave me a headache, so I stopped reading, but it's perfectly plausible that a human could have written that as well. In fact I often get headaches reading human-generated prose too. This got me wonder…
Comment linking /p/feeling-unproductive-maybe-you-should
on “Is Hacker News Bullshit?”Submitted Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking as a story · 198 points
HN discussionAll the blogs posted by e.g. this user [0] were generated by GPT-3. [1] Some of those reached the top of HN. That comment indeed looks a lot like it is generated. It has correlated a bunch of words, but it did not understand that the link between UI and AI is tenuous. It is probably one of the few comments where it is so glaringly obvious. There are likely a lot more comments around which are generated but which wen…
Comment linking /p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had
on “Spinning Up in Deep RL”Submitted What I learned from trying to be too productive as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAnd another article from the author's blog, that describes the whole game: " What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics " [8/3/20] https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-... > Ever since COVID hit, everyone and their mother started writing online. One of the most interesting ways people have been playing with this technology is in feeding it article headlines and introductions. > While the ou…
Comment linking /p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had
on “GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News”Submitted Boldness and Creativity Trumps Intelligence as a story · 10 points
HN discussion"That scenario is no longer science fiction. Just a few weeks ago, a self-help blog post written by GPT-3 reached the top of Hacker News, a popular news aggregation website. [2]" 2. Porr, L. Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking. https://adolos.substack.com/ (2020). It's kinda interesting to go back and review the comments on that submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
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on “Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit”Submitted We Don't Really Understand Randomness as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Thinking- Ideation as a Skill as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual thinking isn't just for artists as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Success is about making luck as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don’t Understand Randomness as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Thinking- Ideation as a Skill as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing more while thinking less: lazy writing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to be lazy (but still productive) when writing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Struggle of Ambitious People as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual thinking is not just for artists- mental chess and problem solving as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The link between exercise and work output as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned from trying to be too productive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don’t Understand Randomness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amgen stresses the importance of luck as a leadership skill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fooled by randomness: we understand less than we think as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Thinking- Ideation as a Skill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amgen stresses the importance of luck in project management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creativity is more important than intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Issue with Your Ambition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don’t Understand Randomness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want to write more? Think less as a story · 2 points
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