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by Zetice 1101 days ago
Why wouldn't it just describe the competition of sentiment if there was one?

Edit:

> Zetice starts off by suggesting the value of being able to summarize comments, positing it as a significant improvement to an unspecified system or feature. They further posit that such a summary could encapsulate the variety and contention of sentiments found within a thread.

> In response, hackernewds expresses skepticism about the feasibility of such a task. They argue that the diversity and conflict of opinions often found in comments would make it difficult to produce an effective summary.

> Zetice counters this viewpoint by asking why a summary couldn't reflect the existence of this diversity or conflict of sentiment if that is a prevailing characteristic of the comments in question.

Seems fine to me, in principle. Would be nice to abbreviate further but that's just prompt engineering.