Editing Work Amplification (section)

== Conversation ==

A similar thing happens in conversations as well. However, unlike in the client-server model, conversation partners are rarely paying each other for services. Consequently, the optimal strategy in any case is for the requester to abandon the conversation. This is especially true online, where it is cheap to ask "source?" and expensive to actually provide a source that is both accessible, reputable, and which matches the political proclivities of every participant. Online commenters frequently espouse the idea that "the burden of proof is on the one making the claim", but realistically they're just asking for education for free.

The website [https://lmgtfy.app/ Let Me Google That For You] was invented for the purpose of handling these requests, but as always [[wikipedia:Eternal September|Eternal September]] never ends. Sometimes people try to help others help themselves but this rarely works.

{{HackerNews
 | url      = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906147
 | author   = lukan
 | title    = Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame
 | text     = "and extra especially nuclear, in addition to making power lines difficult to build, are to blame"

I used to think nuclear reactors are just hard to build in general, because the costs when something goes wrong are very, very high. So what unnecessary regulation is there with nuclear reactors that you think should be deleted?
 | date     = 2025-11-13
 | score    = 60
 | comments = 72
 | comment  = true
}}
{{HackerNews
 | url      = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906237
 | author   = bpodgursky
 | title    = Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame
 | text     = I'm sorry but this is the easiest thing to google in history, don't make people do the work for you.\n\nStart here:\n\n1. How many new nuclear power plants has the NRC approved in its entire history (since being formed from the AEC)?\n\n2. What's the cost of a nuclear kw in China vs the US, and is the trend going up or going down?
 | date     = 2025-11-13
 | score    = 60
 | comments = 72
 | comment = true
}}

Perhaps we can learn more on how to manage these online conversations by seeing how we fix them in computer systems.