A large number of extremely smart people are being paid ungodly amounts of money to enhance the addictiveness of AI output. I'm not optimistic about them failing.
We never bet against extremely smart people on HN. Extremely smart people not actively shaping the world would be a true travesty to revolt against, not simply post angry comment-content into the void.
Oh I am. In the end they are just doing what somebody else much more stupid than them is telling them to do. That limits how much damage they can do.
Not really? It’s incredibly easy to run an A/B test targeting hundreds of thousands of users to test hypothesis and refine your eventual feature. All these eventually add up. And honestly, the upper management is pretty smart too.
Yea, I really don't get the idealism from some that say "the billionaires are going to fail any minute now" when the problem keeps getting worse and there is no end in sight.