Comment by pinoy420
3 days ago
Just like fusion energy it is pointless and you are not allowed to have excitement about it because some anonymous stranger on HN said so.
3 days ago
Just like fusion energy it is pointless and you are not allowed to have excitement about it because some anonymous stranger on HN said so.
You're certainly allowed to get excited about it as long as you're patient and don't wildly overinflate the realistic timeline to net energy production. Similarly, nobody will stop you from hyping up quantum computation as long as you're not bullshitting usecases or lying about qubit scaling.
In the wake of cryptocurrency and AI failing to live up to their outrageous levels of hype, many people on this site worry that the "feel the AGI" crowd might accidentally start feeling some other, seemingly-profitable vaporware to overhype and pump.