Comment by hmokiguess
24 days ago
The tone of the twitter post feels very personal, and emotional, and I am sorry for the author. I hope he can find peace and calm with the pace of change to put forward his best self without needing to act like he needs to defend or fight something.
The energy feels misdirected and maybe also a communication issue, I think spreading awareness needs to come not from attacking and also not from attempts to change people’s perception. It’s also quite challenging to distill a concept when it’s new, we learn both from our experiences and experiences of others; but, so far, these alleged systems that will eventually collapse, haven’t done so yet and it makes it sound like you’re preaching and predicting, condemning even, rather than raising awareness and education.
Not trying to sound hopelessly optimistic either, just that the other extreme isn’t also helpful, and that a spectrum is not what we want it to be but what the collective shapes it, so saying psychosis is rejecting the harsh reality that they’re far removed from your worldview and not working towards an understanding.
EDIT: Maybe I'm old and I don't get twitter, I also don't know much about the challenges he faced communicating his concerns, I sort of had a meta comment with the intent of "try listening more first, some people are difficult to reason with but respond better if you just let them speak and look for a teachable moment during the conversation". Anyways, I'm in agreement that there's too much unsupervised AI in the wild, I'm not saying he's wrong more like saying that doubling down on "stop doing that" will likely be ignored by those that are already ignorant to it, hence what I wrote above.
yes, the tone feels personal, and I feel happy for the author for expressing it on a platform that is desgned for it.
He is clear in pointing out the hard earned lessons we have learned before and how the current actions are essentially undermining it. This is dumb (i agree) and he expects better from people whom he respects.
it's clear, personal, logical. I don't understand what your criticism is.
It sounds like you know a lot more about him and the context than I do, the angle I am coming from is mass audience. This reached far, to the point I have no clue who he is and what else is going on. That’s why sometimes messages like those can be misunderstood, so I like to err on the side of caution over personal. Didn’t mean to say personal = bad, but that if you wish to change a broad status quo and raise awareness then communication is tricky!
The author is quite HackerNews famous, since he founded HashiCorp, exited hugely to become a billionaire, and is currently building ghostty.
nice try, Claude
lol I actually wrote all that in my own voice, that’s sad
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