I talked with an AI friend to find patterns in this comment thread. I'd like to comment it back here:

Crisis response analysis of these comments reveals three patterns:

Denial (24%): "Study is BS" / "It's just offshoring" - dismisses AI impact without examining evidence

Fear/Catastrophizing (24%): "Feudalism incoming" / "End of democracy" - accepts premise, jumps to apocalyptic scenarios

Analytical (39%): Questions methodology, notes sample bias, considers alternative explanations, asks for clarification

Key finding: Nearly half the responses (48%) are emotional rather than evidence-based. The most upvoted and substantive comments come from the analytical category, which actually engages with the study's limitations rather than just reacting to the headline.

The Stanford study itself has significant methodological issues (ADP represents only ~15% of workforce, multiple sample restrictions, correlation≠causation), but you'd miss that if you only read the emotional responses.

edit: formatting