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Tone aside, the post contains some hard truths. I'm curious to see what the HN audience think of the point the author makes.

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I love his point and I love his exuberantly colorful tone.

The audience isn't getting to see it because it's getting flagged as it shows up.

We know organic interest when we see it, so I merged all the comments into this one (the first) and re-upped it. Meta explanations here if it's the kind of thing you like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734700

IMO this should be flagged. This is outrage porn, and comments overwhelmingly fall into two camps: ones discussing the author and writing style, completely devoid of intellectual curiosity; and ones venting their own pent up energy based on the title/topic. Very few are interested in the actual points of the article, because it’s written in a way that maximally discourages civil discussion.

I know occasionally a “discuss the title” thread is allowed, but this one is almost strictly worse than just the title without the link, since we don’t get useless comments on the author in the latter case.

Oh, and I say this as someone who vaguely agree with the sentiment.

You're right, but this seems to be a rare boundary condition where some users think it's fun/interesting and others are triggered by it and the two groups are the same order of magnitude.

In such cases the story is going to keep showing up no matter what we do. If we don't yield after 14 submissions we're destined to yield after 140! I'd rather yield after 14. It's just one thread, and easy enough to move on from.

It's been flagged.

Seven | eight or more prior submissions have been flagged. They've been vouched for, flagged again, marked dead, and resubmitted .. by many different unaligned not bot people.

As dang noted above the HN community wants to thrash this out .. some want it deader than a parrot, others want to comment that much of the AI hype appears to have no clothes and this opinion range comes from 10 year old active accounts (and more recent ones).

This is better than the Monty Python dead parrot sketch. Which, now that I think about it, could be a metaphor for AI.

I skipped over the blog post and thread several times here, as the shortened title didn't really sound appealing.

It's only after I read it via twitter that I dug back in to see the thread. I agree that this might be seen as "outrage porn"... but who really doesn't love a good rant? It's good to discharge the thundercloud of disquiet through at least one good thread, such as this one.

As for me, and my perspective, I took the Stanford AI course back when it showed up here, and others... just to learn the mechanics of it, and it's fascinating. The hype cycle on this though, is off the charts.

I came to see if there were any others who wanted to get actual legislation to passed to help set up "Thought Leader Jail". ;-)

This is what great moderation looks like. Thank you, dang.

and of course you had to lie about title, because that's how pitiful you are.

Pitiful as I am, I need to ask you to stop breaking HN's guidelines. Your account has been doing this repeatedly, and in fact is way over the line at which we ban people.

I'm not banning you at the moment because it wouldn't feel sporting to do so in response to a personal remark. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules going forward, that would be good.

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