And you think I don't want to live on my own platform in some giant habitat with drones that do everything for me. Where disease and famine is eradicated, where I can change my body however I want and I have no concept of money? Sure! Just as much as the other guy, but to get there we need some hard science, funding and steady progress.

AI is one of the hardest problems facing us so doing things we so notoriously bad at like estimating the difficulty of a such problems will not get us any results.

I encourage skepticism and careful research as opposed to ignorance and fear-mongering.

On that note why was not Lecun's FAIR project not on front-page HN? Instead we have this shit... Is there any hope that we'll grow up?