Comment by Fraterkes
4 hours ago
Apart from being tonedeaf, this stuff just strikes me as very lazy. Who still needs to be told that AI is new and transformative? Getting the privilege of monologueing to a crowd of people on one of the biggest days of their lives, and then just throwing out a bunch of obvious cliches... pretty damning imo.
Absolutely, great graduation speeches are unique and from the heart. They don't sound like a sales pitch for the latest trend or thing, and mentioning AI shows how clueless theses speakers are.
I think the one steve jobs gave at stanford is a great example
I think this is the key point. HN commenters on this thread and related ones like to assume everybody’s an activist luddite but actually I bet the majority of the audience is just rolling their eyes at the amount of open doors being kicked in while being forced to sit still and listen to that drivel.
Which is why they booed the mention of AI specifically, surely.
It's because they're bored of the speech, not because they're angry at the hearing praise for the technology that is poised to fuck up their careers and futures
You can be pissed off about AI without being an "activist luddite" you know
The word "Luddite" is no longer such an insult as it once was, by the way, now that everyone realises they had a point.