All the irrelevant ant kitchen posts really drives home the dead internet theory.

jb1991 a day ago | parent | next [-]

The interesting thing about those posts is that once you see two of them in a thread, you know there are going to be more than two.

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Rapzid a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It shouldn't be surprise we are seeing so many of these posts surface.

After all, when you see two ants in the kitchen..

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epolanski a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a good analogy.

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mrguyorama 19 hours ago | parent [-]

There's an entire class of analogies and idioms that match this scenario, so how come only the exact same "ant" one is the one everyone uses?

It's either artificial or just classic meme effects, but then the question becomes, where did you pick this up from?

Did you see it on twitter?

	▲	epolanski 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I read it here on hn and just repeated it, cuz it made sense.

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qwerpy a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I click on these ant kitchen people expecting some new account with 3 karma, nope, old ass accounts with lots of karma. Humans and bots converging in functionality.

	▲	GreenWatermelon 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		it's a cool analogy.
	▲	asalahli 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Out of curiosity and for the lack of a better thing to do with my time, I prompted both gpt and opus several times to write an HN comment about Jensen Huang's affairs to see if either of them would include the ants thingy. They didn't I can't say for certain if I just didn't use the right model, but I also wouldn't be surprised if this is just people parroting each other to look smart. After all, people did it for decades before llms were a thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯