It’s incredible how uninformed the average Hackernews is about artificial intelligence. But the average Hackernews never met a hype train they wouldn’t try to jump on.
I have several experiences where people belittle me when I say the same thing. To the extent I rarely say it anymore. For everybody else AGI is around the corner and it's gonna dominate the world.
> never met a hype train they wouldn’t try to jump on
Crypto-currencies
HN _eventually_ largely gave up on these, but it was basically a True Believer space from 2011 to the early days of NFTs; it was more credulous than just about any other community which had known about cryptocurrencies since the early days.