alt Hacker NewsSomething that bothers me with hn is that despite the amazing shit we see with AI, a big chunk of it has somehow decided that the corpo bloodsuckers are also amazing and should be protected at all costs. I wish we could have more nuanced conversations, considering the majority here think of themselves as some sort of high iq individuals.
Many here are overconfident. They believe that expertise in one area means expertise in all areas.
Just browse any thread about renewable energy where the tech bro crowd believes that every challenge is a “solved problem”.
Were that the case, private industry would be building data centres powered by nothing but wind and solar energy. Yet, the preferred power solutions still appear to be the power grid or skirting emissions regulations via gas turbines.