[sdfzguf]

Every few month I make a new one. That's because I like to share personal information when I discuss certain topics. I don't have secrets to hide, but I just don't feel comfortable having it all in one place. I want to stay as anonymous as I can. I try to avoid an account that paints a comprehensive picture of my thoughts, interests, job situations, hopes, whatever, you name it

There is a bullet point in the guidelines about exactly that. It's not desired behaivor. But I don't feel bad about it, because I don't intend to misuse it.

Kind of related: I'm worried about the new language recognition tools of today and tomorrow. Last time I've seen a post about HN users, they needed 10k (?) words from an account to make a connection between accounts.

Edit: This is the mentioned post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

[penaazv]

Wow. I did not see this coming.

And highly appreciate you sharing this.

I never really thought it through with this perspective. And yes, it's kinda concerning.

[sdfzguf]

It is, isn't it? I'm waiting for an AI tool that translates the text that I enter into the text field into a de-personalized text with the same context. It has to be possible to identify indentifiers and change the text while maintaining the coherent argument/ thought of the text. Would have to be computated locally, before interacting with anything online. But I'm not aware such a tool exists as of now.

Needless to say, this takes something away from the communication. A sacrifice I might be willing to make. Idk yet

[penaazv]

It does make sense. And hopefully we'll have something like this soon.