alt Hacker News> I knew this would turn into a super boring thing where people will announce that they too misunderstood, therefore everyone does, but this is all very silly nonsense.
I don't understand. You said:
> I've literally never heard anyone conflate an agent and a model. Ever.
but when people give you counterexamples suddenly anecdotal experience is boring and silly nonsense?
Let me help you understand.
If there was a post on HN that said "I often see people wearing socks over their pants, and this is why you shouldn't wear your socks over your pants", someone might observe "is this a thing? I don't think this is common". Invariably this comment is going to self-select for the extremely uncommon person who wears socks over their pants who will observe that of course, everyone wears socks over their pants.
When people write "people often" or "people often ask" types of blog posts, 99.99% of the time they are basically just projecting their own learning, beliefs, etc. These discussions seldom actually exist, it's super common, etc. That isn't indicative of anything.
It reminds me of this great piece - https://theonion.com/sociologist-considers-own-behavior-indi...