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This is a good article. I don't understand why people find it questionable and get so defensive about it. It does not deny the fast progress nor the potential o
by blackbear_ 6y ago
This is a good article. I don't understand why people find it questionable and get so defensive about it. It does not deny the fast progress nor the potential of current/future techniques. It is simply an explanation for the layman of things that should be obvious to any practitioner in the field.
- Barrin92 6y ago> I don't understand why people find it questionable and get so defensive about it because people in the technology sector have a distorted view of their own importance. Despite the extremely meagre impact of the "computer revolution" on both economic growth and anything outside the world of bits, people in 'tech' fashion themselves to be sort of world-changing figures. AI on top of it is a sort of ersatz religion, the rapture of the nerds as Charlie Stross put it.