Why “person” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
> How else can you stay safe against a threat that exfiltrates your entire digital life in like 10 seconds? I moved part of my wealth to a private bank, on an account requiring…
by TacticalCoder · Oct 31, 2026
Such a risky idea to let one person rewrite the whole legacy. I mean there's a chance that this guy thinks about maintenance and how all his creations will me supported when he'…
by gosen · Oct 31, 2026
No, intelligence is a description of behavior, not stuff. As a crisp example: a newly dead person is almost exactly the same stuff as an alive person, but has no intelligence at…
by robotresearcher · Oct 31, 2026
It’s interesting that it’s supposed to be very bad to destroy evidence, especially after litigation has started. But in the end, usually the consequences are better for the pers…
by nico · Oct 31, 2026
Twitter is still super relevant in crypto circles (you can see for example the (ex) binance CEO using it to give updates about their latest scandal) so I think Vitalik at the ve…
by ungovernableCat · Oct 31, 2026
Its a protection for the person who deploys the model and controls the context against some exploits, on the expectation that that operator will take steps to prevent large scal…
by dragonwriter · Oct 31, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "person" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "person" over time.
A person is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. Read more on Wikipedia