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You and your grandparent essentially say “it hasn’t happened yet.” Nobody said it’s happened. It’s going to happen.



Yeah, and "nanotech" is going to be a trillion dollar industry by 2015. Sorry "citations needed." Many people can assert things.


So you can’t reason about something that hasn’t happened yet. That’s your stance. You could throw any argument out the window this way.


It's a really effective and accurate argument with good Brier score when it's deployed against marketing woo, which is all that "AI" is.

I'm happy to place a long bet at whatever odds you like for whatever specific prediction you care to make if you want to put your money where your mouth is. Auger, "long now" whatever -I'm good for it.


Would you please stop posting trollish comments to HN so we don't have to keep banning you?


So I’m banned? For what? How is anything I’ve said trollish? This is a joke right? Which part is trolling? AI is a threat to jobs? People respond to AI “alarmists” with character attacks and sarcasm? I genuinely do not get it.

If banning me is such a horrible burden for you, you are free to email me so that we can discuss a solution.


We haven't banned this account, but we've banned previous accounts that I believe you've used. If you keep breaking the site guidelines, we're going to have to ban you again. I'd much rather you'd take the spirit of this site to heart. We're trying for something, as you know, that's a little bit better than internet default. That means posting civilly and substantively, with respect for others no matter how wrong they may be.

When a comment is both low-information and personally negative, it becomes trollish almost regardless of topic. I think I read "So you can’t reason", etc., as personal, though looking at it now I see that you meant "you" in the sense of "one". Sorry! Nonetheless, you've posted such comments in the past, including recently (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19099603, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19110921), so the main request stands.




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