[padjo]

AI discourse perfectly illustrates why you should just ignore people with view points on the extreme ends of the spectrum.

[ishanz]

I don’t love that take. Extreme positions are often where the interesting ideas are, even if you don’t agree with them.

[padjo]

The ideas are alluring because they're extreme. However the relatively boring stuff in the middle is far more likely to reflect reality or be actually useful.

[schmookeeg]

It's not the extremism I mind, it's the absolutism.

Right now, I couldn't declare "I'm right" about any part of what's going on in this space right now, and I'm surprised when others do so.

[padjo]

I think they're basically the same. ”AI is useless for everything, therefore I will never use it", or "AI will solve everything so i'm never going to even look at the code it produces". Both extreme/absolutist positions and both impractical/foolish.

[rvz]

Exactly. I find these proclamations pointless and sanctimonious. We don't know if he is using these AI tools privately.

But yes this is a very extreme position.