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> So, this is one of those areas I know way too much about and many of the comments seem wrong-headed. Makes me wonder how much faith I should put in comments on topics where I don't know as much.

Experiencing the Gell-Mann amnesia firsthand is always weird. In an expert in deep learning, a research topic that arguably is mich closer to HN's heart. Yet HN comments on the topic are usually a bit off the mark. They feel more like something people would say after taking a 101 undergrad class in the topic, rather than a truly informed discussion. A lot of my PhD work revolved around computational biology. And while I don't work in the area anymore, i know enough about it to see that in sich a topic that's further from HNs core, comments are often not just "a bit" uninformed,but utterly so