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The most interesting type of replyguy is the meta-replyguy (as in the greek prefix, not the tech company).
Here's a typical interaction:
Me: [Question] Please only reply if you know the answer.
Someone: I googled it for 5 seconds, here's the answer. [It's not the answer.]
Me: Did you not read my post? I only wanted replies if you know the answer.
Meta-replyguy: You're an asshole.
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I’m not saying the answer will always be “no,” but people are wildly, wildly overselling the number of situations in which the answer will be “yes.”
Sometimes the answer is “no” because incorrectness is a deal-breaker — and that scenario’s been getting a lot of attention (fake legal briefs, vibe-coding faceplants, etc).
Sometimes, however, the answer is “no” because making something •typical• isn’t really helpful. Where humanity needs to come to the foreground, homogeneity is positively unhelpful. Here’s a fascinating example:
https://hci.social/@bwaber/115647856415818492
Browns rookie Shedeur Sanders pantomimes answers to Cleveland media following Joe Flacco's benching https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-rookie-shedeur-sanders-pantomimes-answers-to-cleveland-media-following-joe-flacco-s-b…
inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …
Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
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Zwei Tote bei russischen Angriffen in der Ukraine
Bei russischen Angriffen in der Nacht sind in der Ukraine nach Behördenangaben zwei Menschen getötet worden. Im Landkreis Polohy der südukrainischen Region Saporischschja kam Militärgouverneur Iwan Fedorow zufolge ein 62-Jähriger durch eine Bombenattacke ums Leben. Russland habe die Sprengsätze auf das Dorf Uspeniwka abgeworfen.
In der Großstadt Bila Zerkwa in der Region Kiew…
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J. D. Vance's Bad Answer to an Anti-Semitic Question (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/jd-vance-answer-anti-semitism/684780/?gift=Iqzl5-VJxwPkwKvpnSULV3xzTV6Bdpr67-rXS20374o
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p25#a251101p25
inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …