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tptacek • yesterday at 8:03 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I have zero financial stake in Anthropic and more broadly my career is more threatened by LLM-assisted vulnerability research (something I do not personally do serious work on) than it is aided by it, but I understand that the first principal component of casual skepticism on HN is "must be a conflict of interest".

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godelski • yesterday at 9:29 PM

  > but I understand that the first principal component of casual skepticism on HN is "must be a conflict of interest".
I think the first principle should be "don't trust random person on the internet"

(But if you think Tom is random, look at his profile. First link, not second)

malfist • yesterday at 8:25 PM

You still haven't answered why I should care that you, a stranger on the internet, believes some unsubstantiated hearsay?

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