alt Hacker NewsI use the disparaging nature of the comments on HN as an indicator of AI progress. It’s negatively correlated. By that metric, AI has improved significantly this year alone.
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elvis10ten • today at 6:49 AM
From my experience using HN, this feels made up. HN sentiment on AI seems to have only gotten better: with more overly pro-AI or nuanced voices plus more AI topics.
I like to take advantage of this effect. I will post various concepts in threads like these to see how "offensive" the hive mind finds them to be.
The more immediate & adverse the reaction, the more certain I become that the idea is probably worth pursuing.
Topics like SQLite vs hosted sql used to be the same way around here. In 2017 you'd get buried under the prison for suggesting that SQLite is competitive with MySQL. Today, the inverse is mostly true.