[4hg4ufxhy]

This is show HN. From articles and discussions it feels more than half being about AI. As an AI doomer the interesting content on HN has plummetted.

[binary132]

It is horrifying.

I guess that’s because that’s where a lot of VC and hypebuxx are right now, though.

In 10 years either advanced AI will have eaten everything or nobody will even remember any of this.

[teiferer]

Hm idk ... The blockchain hype a while back was much less than the current AI hype and still most folks remember it.

[msgodel]

Optimizing for VC money rather than focusing on building something good sounds like a good way to waste time.

[binary132]

unless your goal is to give yourself a fat income and sell your useless company for a bunch of money to some other speculator, pretty soon you’re a “serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits” and ready to be a CEO

[kjkjadksj]

Browse some job postings if you haven't for a while. Its even worse among job ads where just about everything posted out there is on working on some LLM project. It is so lopsided I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers were a lot more than 1/5 for job postings in tech.

[baxtr]

How do you define an AI doomer? I’m wondering if I’m one too.

My position is that I think AI is an amazing tool, but that’s it. It’s like any other tool we humans have developed before – we use it to create more quickly, with less effort.

Personally, I don’t think we’re anywhere close to achieving AGI, and I find the tech bros’ AGI fantasies appalling.

[4hg4ufxhy]

Mostly I just find discussions about/including it tiring, uninteresting and predictable.

[FeepingCreature]

Well, AI doomers are people who think AI will doom humanity. Thus the name.

[4hg4ufxhy]

I was probably misusing the term in that case. I have a negative and pessimstic view about AI, but I think humanity will be fine.

[baxtr]

That makes a lot more sense actually