With all due respect, what does it say about us that „famous researcher voices his speculative opinion“ is an instant top 1 on hackernews?

tptacek a day ago | parent | next [-]

That the speculative opinions of famous researchers are a good starting point for curious conversation.

padolsey a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, HN is no stranger to cults of personality. Post a paulg essay that says something a teenager could write and it'll fly up to position 1.

	▲	jaza a day ago \| parent [-]
		True. We have our gods, same as every other tribe throughout history.

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seydor a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it worse than "Rich CEO expressing certainly over his hunch"

	▲	Zacharias030 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		fair point, I appreciate AI researcher intuition about AI much more than CEO hunch boldly stated but not even firm on the terminology.