[bobthepanda]

It’s also a bit of a dilemma; if your boss has AI mania, and you buying into it or not is the difference between being promoted, keeping your job, passed up or even fired, the rational course of action for self-preservation is to also buy into the mania.

[slopinthebag]

Yeah but that doesn't explain the people on anonymous forums talking like they have a brainworm.

[bluefirebrand]

Something I think about quite often with HN is there are probably people on this forum that have friends / family who work at AI companies or are highly monetarily invested in AI themselves.

I don't think everyone on this forum is as objective as we'd like to think. I know I'm not. A large part of why I dislike AI is because I view it as making my life, personally, worse. It has completely fucked up the career I've been building for going on two decades

And all I hear is "adapt or die" from assholes who are chugging the AI koolaid by the bucketfull

[dgellow]

FWIW I have multiple friends in the AI world and was very close to joining it full time, and still feel exactly like you

[jerf]

You can't get a fad like this with a true believer rate of 0. Too unstable. You have to have some true believers in the mix to see this situation arise, preferably widely distributed throughout the population.