alt Hacker News> Have you ever felt joy watching a sunset? Smelling a flower? Hearing a song? Seeing a child laugh? Did you create any of those things?
yes and has nothing to do with prompting congratulations
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Just to be explicit, and correct me if I’m wrong in my understanding, but your argument was:
1. Prompting is not creation.
2. Therefore prompting cannot lead to joy.
For this argument to work, you’re implicitly also claiming that
1.5 Only activities that involve creation can lead to joy.
My counterexamples (if you agree with them, but you say you do) show that this latter statement is not true.
So if you’d like to show that “prompting cannot lead to joy”, you need to fix up your proof. I’m not claiming that you’re wrong! But the reasoning gave cannot possibly be correct.
The question was clearly about whether or not you felt joy from something that you didn't take part in creating. The fact that you're now playing dumb and obsessively returning to the topic of prompting shows you don't have a good counterargument.
I'll remind you again: it's none of your business what gives people joy.