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by adrithmetiqa 37 days ago
You’re quite correct and we are likely going to stumble into this future despite all the very big brains working on these technologies (including people on hn).

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

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It’s odd because so many researchers and so many people who are far better engineers than me, can’t see it. I don’t even think it’s the salary for most- it’s just techno-optimist horse blinders, reading assured utopia at the top of an exponential graph.