This is pure trolling when you are unable to engage with the comments or provide evidence supporting your position.

The comment history [0] suggests that it isn't trolling, but fanaticism - with the telltale hope of demise for everyone that can't see the light.

If I digress a bit, I wonder what it is with some hypes - tech or just broader in society - where something reaches a critical mass of publicity where suddenly a surprisingly large portion of people becomes just convinced, regardless of if they have some actual knowledge of the subject or not. Like, anecdotally, watching completely unrelated sports streams and there's a really sincere off-topic comment that AI will change everything now and "society isn't ready" or similar. But I guess it shouldn't be surprising when supposedly intelligent tech gurus and media folks are just eating everything up and starts peddling the narrative to the general public, why shouldn't one believe it? It's like a confluence of incentives that becomes a positive feedback loop until it all blows up.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163596

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acdha a day ago | parent [-]

I guess I was thinking of it as trolling inspired by fandom. It’s cool to like something, but no positive discussion will grow out of making a provocative statement and then saying anyone who disagrees is proof you’re right.

	▲	elktown a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yep. The end result is certainly the same either way.

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wordofx a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is HN. Even with evidence people here get their feelings hurt and downvote. You cannot engage in conversation when one side is “the science is settled” mentality.

or in the case of AI, the majority of people are “wow this is useful and helpful” and then HN is like “it didn’t 1 shot answer from the first prompt I gave it so it’s useless”.

You only need to read every discussion on HN about AI. The majority here are against AI are also the same people who really have no idea how to use it.

So in the end there is no conversation to engage with because HN has tunnel vision. “Elon bad” “ai bad” “science bad” “anything not aligned with my political view bad”