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Comment by jennyholzer | Hacker News Reader

I've been getting flagged by high-on-their-own-supply AI boosters for identifying that LLM benchmarks have been obvious bullshit for at least the last year and a half.

What changed to make "the inevitable AI bubble" the dominant narrative in last week or so?

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Link those comments please because I checked your history and the flagged ones were pure nonsense with zero insights. Also, calling out LLM benchmarks has never been a radical take and basically the default on this site.

Companies are talking about needing trillions of dollars is why.

And the government backstops.

Nothing says confidence that AGI is imminent like needing the US government to prevent your investments from losing you money.

Benchmarks in general have this problem, across pretty much all industries. "When a measure becomes a target" and all that.

It is possible to be right on the main theme but only by accident (with arguments and claims being wrong), communicating in a highly faulty way, with pointless insults, doing it in offtopic derails, being correct on minor point while being mostly wrong etc.

Can you link some of these comments you consider useful but got flagged?

The market was down for AI related stocks especially, while down only over 3% it’s the worst week since April, and there’s no single event that is to blame it just looks like market sentiment has shifted away from the previous unchecked exuberance.

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