imsohotness's comments

On: I miss thinking hard

[imsohotness]

Maybe we get AI to handle the lightwork while we go on to think about different things?

On: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw

[imsohotness]

Trivial to get AI to write in all lowercase, though.

[atherton33 → imsohotness]

Yes, the strategy depends on lack of effort from other senders, even trivial effort

On: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw

[imsohotness]

I've seen this before, I know Sam Altman does it (or used to do it). That was a couple years ago. Hope it doesn't become a trend.

[the_af → imsohotness]

It's already a trend. It's been for at least a decade. I'm surprised people here never noticed it...

[layer8 → imsohotness]

Unfortunately it has become quite common on HN already.

It comes from people growing up on smartphone chats where the kids apparently don’t care to press Shift.

[GaryBluto → layer8]

I've already written an extension that filters these comments intelligently. (E.g., quotes are ignored but if the rest of the body is all lowercase it is collapsed.)

[verdverm → GaryBluto]

have you shared it anywhere?

[GaryBluto → verdverm]

I plan to at some point, it's part of a bigger extension I created for myself to filter out minor annoyances and I'd have to strip out/modify things other people probably wouldn't want (such as filtering of "new age" TLDs like ".pizza" and whatnot).

[Uehreka → layer8]

What’s weird though is that modern OSes often auto-capitalize the first letter of a sentence, so it actually takes more effort to deliberately type in all-lowercase.

[nemomarx → Uehreka]

Only mobile does that in my experience - you can tell what platform people send discord messages on based on this usually

[rileymichael → Uehreka]

simple toggle to disable it permanently

my reasoning is that i don’t want identifiable markers for what device im writing from. so all auto-* (capitalization, correct, etc.) features are disabled so that i have raw input

[hluska → rileymichael]

Being part of the minority that disables those things (and then admitting to it in public) provides a lot more analytical signal than you’re aware of. That’s a remarkably poor reason to disrespect your readers.

[rileymichael → hluska]

i don't care about the 'analytical signal'. the purpose is people can't tell if im writing a (discord, slack, etc.) message from my phone or laptop or desktop, and it works for that