Some people get stuck in a rut of a particular kind of thinking and are unable to speculate what would happen if or when a set of conditions occurs.

LeCun is a good example of someone that's bet on the wrong horse, and keeps doubling down in spite of evidence to the contrary. It's to the point where what he says has nearly zero predictive power on future events.

I love playing around with AI, but we are playing a dangerous game at this point and it's one a lot of people don't seem to fully comprehend.