[zooq_ai]

I Use Hacker News for technical input.

on an average, HN crowd is pretty clueless about

a) running a profitable business

b) foreseeing technological progress -- say two iterations down the line.

c) mass adoption of features

On an average, they tend to be elitist and don't represent the average brand popularity (e.g Google, Meta, Amazon). They only mildly upvote technology that helps their extremely privileged life.

E.g Current AI / Metaverse features helps plenty of poor, underprivileged people around the world, especially non-english speaking. But HN is the first to mock such features.

Because of this, they tend to be poor individual stock pickers. They are highly risk-averse and typically bring an SRE mentality to the world.

[DoingIsLearning]

> They only mildly upvote technology that helps their extremely privileged life.

Your bias is heavily US centric. HN is not SF or SV. Plenty of users in Serbia, Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, Vietnam, in war thorn Ukraine.

Arguably the average user is above average for their area's COL but to claim everyone is swimming in VC money is as dilusion as the people you want to portrait in your comment.

[zooq_ai]

You don't have to be swimming in VC money to be an elitist.

[bugbuddy]

Portray

[simion314]

>E.g Current AI / Metaverse features helps plenty of poor, underprivileged people around the world, especially non-english speaking. But HN is the first to mock such features.

AI features in phones from Google are English only or maybe a few languages, even if you know English try to use "AI" to set a route using your voice when the locations are not english words. Sure, some free AIs on the web will help poor people but the best ones are under payment wall and not only that you need a specific way to pay, what I mean for example is Netflix, Steam do not need my credit card, they have alternative ways to pay like PayPal but Google, Microsoft, OpenAI they only allow credit card , so I conclude they do not care for my money they really need that credit card for some reason.

[rockskon]

> Metaverse

No quicker way to signal how little you know about technology than to promote something niche that doesn't function well on most cheap electronics.

[zooq_ai]

Thanks for proving my point of not looking Two iterations down the line

[rockskon]

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You have no crystal ball. You have no high ground nor do you have privileged knowledge to back what you're saying.

You are personally invested in those technologies being game changers. It couldn't be more clear given your aggressive, substance-less posts.

[daghamm]

I don't know about the second part, but I fully agree with you on the first part.

Some days HN feels like an echo chamber, where thinking outside the box is heavily downvoted.