I think there are many ways someone with his lack of expertise can still be valuable, including:

- Making connections to other subjects that an expert would miss. The hall of fame of sigmoid predictions is just excellent, I already know I'm going to be reminded of it some time in the future. Very entertaining way to get the point across.

- Writing about tricky concepts in a very accessible and elegant way, which experts are notoriously bad at doing themselves - they are often optimizing for other specialists.

- Being able to write with an air of speculation and experimentation with ideas that experts and institutions often can't afford. Experts have to maintain their track record; Scott Alexander can say "lol just double the timeline"

Because HN is YCombinator which has invested in probably hundreds of «AI» firms by now. Including OpenAI.

Allowing slop articles like this literally prints them evaluation money.