[fefe23]

So basically you used unethical trickery to cheat yourself 10k meaningless internet points?

You also shoehorned AI into the story so you could generate some meaningless internet points with the impressionable youth on Hacker News, too?

How about you do something meaningful and ethical with AI instead. Then you might even earn an upvote from me.

[ameerkat]

The intention was not to write a bot which uses unethical trickery, but one that was a productive poster. I include the posts to reddit the bot made in the article. I understand how you may be disillusioned by this article, and I concur that there are many more meaningful things I would like to apply AI to than a contest between friends.

[dang]

Aw, please don't flame people this here. It's not sporting and not in the intended spirit of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[fefe23]

You may be confused about the meaning of "flame". I did not flame anybody. Flaming is an insult directed against a person.

I rephrased what they confessed about their deeds.

The deeds are, indeed, in my estimation, unethical.

I assumed that part is not controversial, as the cheated system in question is called the Karma system.

Surely it is not news to you that cheating karma is unethical?

It was instituted to foster trust and good behavior among visitors of Reddit.

The posting is about cheating that system.

I must be missing something here. Please explain.