alt Hacker NewsI think it did play out fairly as far as actual 'scientific method' goes.
I think as far as the 'debacle', there was definitely a lot of hype (at least as far as HN goes) around it, the level of buzz felt similar to what one would see today around a new AI model release.
Oh I was very excited about it and was following along extremely closely
but the fact that it proceeded in the way that it did was absolutely fucking phenomenal
I’m actually really glad that it was brought up as an example because I had forgotten about it and it’s one of the few kind of hopeful things that we’ve done recently.