Please don't post like this on HN. The guidelines explicitly ask us not to sneer or be curmudgeonly - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

As for the basis of your objection, this smacks of intellectual gatekeeping. Plenty of good writing is by people who are not academically qualified or a recognized expert in the topic they're writing about. Indeed, very often, this kind of writing is better than writing by experts. Experts often write for other experts, and this can be exclusionary to lay readers. When a non-expert learns about a topic then writes about it for a general audience, they tend to be just a step ahead of the audience, and so the reader is able to learn about the topic by following the process of discovery and reasoning that the author just experienced. Sure, they often get some details or concepts wrong, but the discussion on a site like HN can draw other perspectives, and – very often – contributions from experts, which leads to further expansion in everyone's understanding of the topic.

HN's very ethos is to gratify intellectual curiosity, and this kind of writing is highly compatible with that.

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.