[reconnecting]

This is something that genuinely interests me, but from a slightly different perspective. I regularly participate in tech/AI/fraud/security conferences, and I was curious whether people are really listening to and understanding the panelists, or just pretending to.

Last week I was on a privacy panel discussion where one of the speakers had a bad microphone, and honestly no one in the audience could actually hear what he was talking about for five minutes. Afterward, the audience, perhaps out of politeness, perhaps because no one really cared, reacted and applauded as usual.

This post, and especially its reception, feels like a caricature of what's happening in the tech industry right now. Hundreds upvote, very few really try to understand what the context is about, much less have the real experience to judge it, and yet here we are on the front page of HN.

Now the East Coast will wake up, and I'm really curious whether anything will change in this thread.