[Zacharias030]

With all due respect, what does it say about us that „famous researcher voices his speculative opinion“ is an instant top 1 on hackernews?

[tptacek]

That the speculative opinions of famous researchers are a good starting point for curious conversation.

[padolsey]

I mean, HN is no stranger to cults of personality. Post a paulg essay that says something a teenager could write and it'll fly up to position 1.

[jaza]

True. We have our gods, same as every other tribe throughout history.

[seydor]

Is it worse than "Rich CEO expressing certainly over his hunch"

[Zacharias030]

fair point, I appreciate AI researcher intuition about AI much more than CEO hunch boldly stated but not even firm on the terminology.