Comment by isoprophlex

Yeah. If HN is your primary source of in depth AI discussion, you get a pretty balanced take IMO compared to other channels out there. We (the HN crowd) should take into account that if you take "people commenting on HN" as a group, you are implicitly selecting for people that are able to read, parse and contextualise written comment threads.

This is NOT your average mid-to-high level corpo management exec, who can for more than 80% (from experience) be placed in the "rise of the business idiot" cohort, fed on prime linkedin brainrot. self-reinforcing hopium addicts with an mba.

Nor is it the great masses of random earth dwellers who are not always able to resist excess sugar, nicotine, mcdonalds, youtube, fentanyl, my-car-is-bigger-than-yours credit card capitalism, free pornography, you name it. And now RLHF: Validation as a service. Not sure if humanity is ready for this.

(Disclosure: my mum has a chatgpt instance that she named and I'm deeply concerned about the spiritual convos she has with it; random people keep calling me on the level of "can you build me an app that uses llms to predict Funko Pop futures".)