Perhaps the 'singularity' type stuff makes a lot of people disengage? So far I'm inclined to think that the whole 'sentient AI mucking things up' is jumping th

Perhaps the 'singularity' type stuff makes a lot of people disengage? So far I'm inclined to think that the whole 'sentient AI mucking things up' is jumping the gun (to put it mildly). I might very well be wrong though. However, it's only because of HN that I even bother to make the distinction between that particular fear (realistic or otherwise) and the much more directly useful discussion of how AI-type stuff (even just facebook feed algorithms) can be dangerous or harmful.