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Liam Porr
Personal blog · liamp.substack.comaiwriting
Liam Porr writes Excavations, a personal blog at liamp.substack.com about ai and writing. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Is Hacker News Bullshit?”. The last post was in 2021, 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 Substack for his GPT-3 experiment, in which a GPT-3-written post reached the top of Hacker News. Commenters mostly cite it as a reference point for that story.
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?
- Is Hacker News Bullshit?6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
What Hacker News says?
This is ironic since the main article links to another (arguably more interesting) article that talks about achieving #1 posting status on HN with a GPT-3 posting: https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v... Then again I could be replying to a bot
Comment linking /p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors
on “The coming tsunami of fakery”Submitted Is Hacker News Bullshit? as a story · 253 points
HN discussionThis is your daily reminder that a GPT-3 written post made it to the top of hn https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v...
Comment linking /p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors
on “GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about”Submitted Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the Internet Echo Chamber as a story · 74 points
HN discussionhttps://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v... It took some digging to find this
Comment linking /p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors
on “QEMU should move from C to Rust”Submitted My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks as a story · 21 points
HN discussionGPT-3 is not very open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 Related - https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v...
Comment linking /p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors
on “Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning”Submitted A GPT-3 Written Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 Blog post got to the top of Hacker News and 26k total visitors in 2 weeks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solitude During Covid as a story · 1 points
HN discussion