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There's such an avalanche of blogposts on HN constantly saying relatively similar things about AI, that it would be really nice if they were all just filtered d

• dang 26d ago
  We actually downweight lists on HN, for reasons explained a few times over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20denominator%20lists&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
• jgord 26d ago
  It needs a more coherent cogent discussion, leading to dare I say it sane _policy_ ... which the frontier model companies and hyper-scalars are not incentivized to finance, and governments too slow and weakly funded to finance.
  • jgord 26d ago
    Other topics we seem to have been unable to have deep and informed discussion on, leading to sane policy : - inequality / taxation - demographics / aging population - climate change mitigations - affect of social media esp on young people - safety of self-driving cars - economic impacts of LLMs - educational "" "" - security "" "" - surveillance of in-home devices - data collection and sharing - right to repair Failing to react rationally to a rapidly emerging global pandemic a few years ago should have been a wake up call but wasnt. If the technorati are woefully unprepared for the age of AI, which is being rapidly thrust upon us by the big money, then the wider public dont stand a chance of being informed / prepared.