[canadaduane]

> The anti-AI slop that dominates HackerNews doesn't serve anything productive or interesting.

To you. I find the debate quite valuable, as there is a wide open future and we're in the midst of figuring out where "here" is.

[827a]

There is good anti-AI content. I love reading articles concerning AI's limitations and the negative externalities of a world where we're increasingly outsourcing thought, and maybe even taste and authority, to unfeeling, soulless, unaccountable computers. What does wealth disparity look like in a world of billion dollar infrastructure rollouts?

"HackerNews AI Slop" is not that. HackerNews AI Slop (tm) is "Dropbox won't succeed because its just a wrapper around SFTP". It is low-effort drivel written by people who know a lot about one domain (software), and that gives them authority to speak on all domains (marketing, macroeconomics).

I read and appreciate articles that leave a mark on my heart; that raise novel viewpoints, or that are researched extraordinarily well. Yapping for the sixteenth time "they spend so much money markets crashy crashy bad bad" is so deeply boring, just another parroting voice in the echo chamber of ideas that everyone already knows. Challenge yourself. Be original. An AI could have written this article.

[itsnowandnever]

but it is strange that people have bought into the Sam Altman AGI marketing so much that this moderately useful but (in my opinion) not revolutionary tech we're calling AI is so controversial. it'll all good and well to talk about pros and cons of industry initiatives but we've gotten to a stage of hyperbolic paranoia right now that's coming from this, in my opinion, duality of anti-tech broader society contrasting with the carpetbagger AGI hype