"There is even an XKCD commit highly approving of what I have built. "
Dude. Just no.
The comic is about fighting spam. The comments your bots are producing still are uninteresting spam, pretending to be interesting. Worse spam in other words. But go ahead, ask Randall, whether he thinks you accomplished that mission.
The comic says the mission is accomplished when bots are made that create “automated helpful comments” which are upvoted by others. That is exactly what this is. This is the endgame which the main character approves of. As for whether the comments are pretending to be individually written by a human, the xkcd comic already presumes they are pretending — the relevant part is whether people upvote them more than other comments. People who unlike you evaluate them on their actual content, and not coming from an HN link with a score to settle no matter the content.
You are just flailing around having lost and notably did not even attempt to refute a SINGLE difference I carefully listed between this and SPAM. That’s very telling!
This kind of tit-for-tat flamewar is against HN's rules and you broke both the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid this in the future, we'd appreciate it. We want curious conversation here.
This kind of tit-for-tat flamewar is against HN's rules and you broke both the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid this in the future, we'd appreciate it. We want curious conversation here.
Dude. Just no. The comic is about fighting spam. The comments your bots are producing still are uninteresting spam, pretending to be interesting. Worse spam in other words. But go ahead, ask Randall, whether he thinks you accomplished that mission.