How I feel about AI
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Live in an age of AI discovery feels technologically positive but socially bleak.
The author lists six feelings about neural networks and LLMs: surprise at emergent reasoning without a planning algorithm; fear of Yudkowsky's superintelligence-doom argument, which seems flawless yet unsandboxed; disgust at AI crawlers destroying open web communities like a locust plague; sadness for artists facing AI-slop competition; anger at political systems' inability to check capital power, including AI companies' environmental destruction; and happiness to witness artificial intelligence creation, which transformed software development by 2026. Concludes the balance is technologically positive but societally bleak.
What commenters are saying
The thread splits on multiple fronts. One camp criticizes HN's automatic word removal that mangled the title 'How I feel about AI' into 'I feel about AI', calling it a source of confusion and comedy. Another camp disputes the fear of superintelligent AI, arguing sandboxing is futile against bad actors who will ignore guardrails, and the real threat is AI-enabled misinformation and bots, not hypothetical AI revolts. A third negative-format camp faults the article's style as being 'a worksheet for eight year olds', while defenders praise its plain emotional honesty. One comment cheered the use of Mistral.