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by refulgentis 359 days ago
Would advise, generally, that AI isn't crypto.

It's easy to lapse into personifying it and caricaturing the-thing-in-toto, but then we end up at obvious absurdities - to wit:

- we're on HN, it'd be news to most readers that there's a "large overlap" of "true-believers", AI was a regular discussion topic here a loooong time before ChatGPT, even OpenAI. (been here since 2009)

- Similarly "AI proponents keep drawing perfectly straight lines...AIs run all governments, write all code, paint all paintings and so on."

The technical term would be "strawmen", I believe.

Or maybe begging the question (who are these true-believers who overlap? who are these AI proponents)

Either way, you're not likely to find these easy-to-knock-down caricatures on HN. Maybe some college hypebeast on Twitter. But not here.

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I have personally seen all of these people on HN.
Right - more directly, asserting they're overlapping, and then asserting all members of both sets all back the same obviously-wrong argument(s) is a recipe for dull responses from ilk like me :)

I am certain you have observed N members of each set. It's the rest that doesn't follow.