> I don't think we can prevent posters from experimenting with LLMs to post on HN

And yet, she persisted, we will still set guidelines; so that people know they’re unwelcome to do so when they do, so that they can’t argue that they didn’t know, so that we as a social club can strive towards the standards we argue about and accept from the organizers. The point of guidelines is not that they prevent malicious intent; the point is that they inhibit those behaviors that exceed the defined boundaries, however vague or precise they may be. Prevention of malice is an impossibility in all human social affairs, whether guidelines are defined or not; one must find other reasons for rules than prevention to understand why rules are at all.

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GMoromisato 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> And yet, she persisted, we will still set guidelines

I'm not sure if you're including or excluding me from the "we". If you're excluding me, then I feel our conversation has come to an end.

But if you're including me, then I think the guidelines need to evolve to deal with LLMs. Maybe not right now--maybe the current guidelines are sufficient for the next year or two or three. But I think we as a community are uniquely qualified to design and influence the future of internet social clubs in the face of LLMs.

	▲	altairprime 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm not sure if you're including or excluding me from the "we". “We” here refers to individual human beings that are members of the human social-entity constructs (‘social clubs’) that precipitate naturally out of human groups, both in general to all such groups and in specific to the group under discussion here today, HN participants. Whether or not you’re a member of “we” HN participants is conditional on whether or not you are honoring the policy of no AI-assisted writing at HN that is in effect as of whenever you saw this post or the new guidelines. I have no judgment to offer you in that regard, and in any case you’re readily able to decide that for yourself. Separately, I’m not engaging with discussion about future policy; perhaps you should start a top-level thread about it, or write a blog post and submit it (after a few days have passed, so it doesn’t get topic-duped and so that passions have cooled somewhat).