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Do you use AI tools at all?

I am slightly astonished someone makes these sorts of comments in 2025. AI has been remarkably useful for many many things across many industries; I’m curious what you think

And how would you define intelligence then?

Black mirror episode about exactly this

Do you enjoy … any fiction? Sheesh

Erewhon is probably THEE most expensive place lol

So how can you claim what an LLM is doing if we cannot define it regardless?

What is reasoning? What is understanding? Do humans do either? How do you know?

And how is what humans do any different ? What does it mean to understand ? Are we pattern matching as well?

So then what is AGI?

How much longer can I get paid $150k to write code ?

Choice is different than free will. We have will, but it is not free. We will make choices.

What will your next thought be? Think of a movie — why did that movie arise in your mind?

It’s an illusion but that doesn’t negate we must operate as though our will is free!

Majority of kids and teens do not care about that, as much as we’d assume. They are aware, but their day to day is what is important to them.

Friends, relationships, drama — they are kids.

Gary Marcus is unquestionably one of the most negative , and consistently wrong voices in the AI community. I do not understand why he is continued to be given credence or ears to anything he claims.

Do you often discount studies and science when it comes to ideas that don’t align with your natural instinct?

Is addiction a disease or a moral failure? Is depression a chemical imbalance or is it your own fault, maybe just “exercise and smile more”?

Questions of that nature are fair but simply being against a researcher or author because they have a viewpoint different your own is entirely what’s wrong with so much of discourse today.

OK, it sounds like your experience was selfish simply because later ON you had children, and the time you spent alone was time you could've had with your eventual children.

But what of someone who will not have children at all? How is it, literally (in the definition of the word), "selfish" to not have children? From whom are you robbing experience? What is being "taken away" and from whom?

What of the people that have children but those children do not contribute in any meaningful way to society? Is the implication here that every child born must somehow be a net-positive to society?

I see what you're saying about the replacement rate, but I don't see how, on a smaller scale, someone choosing to not have children is a selfish act within the context of a society that is not yet below "replacement" level.

"I'm not giving anyone else a chance" -- there is no "anyone else". There is nothing being robbed, as there is no other party that literally exists in the universe.

There are studies that show quote plainly that people with kids are unholier than those without. The difference is much later on life when the happiness “winner” switches to the group with children.

One theory aside from the obvious is that the brain makes sense of whatever might happen to it, over time. Like how you miss out on some big opportunity, but years later you say, “ah, that’s ok because it led me to where I am today.”

No idea if that was coherent as I’m a bit tired, but wanted to share

How is it selfish to not have kids? Selfishness implies another party; if the kid doesn’t even exist, what is selfish?

Which version do you use?

People often say things like your comment and 99.9% of the time, it’s poor prompting or a lower GPT version.

GPT-4 is remarkably helpful for many coding tasks. If you can’t find use for it, that likely is more of a user problem than the tool.

Do you really think current AI progress is nothing more than an NFT repeat?

Why does being a man or woman even matter? Do we really need a DEI hire for the board of some of the most groundbreaking tech in years? I’m not saying Larry Summers has some perfect resume for the job; but to assume he was brought on BECAUSE he is man?

Cmon. There’s absolutely no evidence for that and you are just projecting an issue into the situation, rather than it being of any reality.

Do you think people said she has no qualifications because she is a woman, or is it possible people say that because her resume is quite short ? It seems like people taking such comments as misogynistic are actually projecting misogyny into the situation, rather than the reverse. If you showed me her resume and put “Steven Smith” stop the paper, I’d say that person isn’t qualified to be running the board of a 90 billion dollar company in charge of guiding research on some of the most groundbreaking new tech in years.

Out of curiosity, because I am trying to learn how to explain to non-tech people what AGI is — how would you describe or define AGI?

How would you define “thinking”?

I’m not at all claiming an LLM thinks, but so many people on HN make this claim and I wonder what they even mean by “think”.

Is there any progress in AI that you find significant or what do you think would qualify as a “breakthrough”?

How HN continues to not expand current progress into any decently significant future timeline is beyond me.

It’s grade school math NOW. But what are the potentials from here?

Are you saying GPT-4 is not much different than GPT2?

Is there any way to disagree with Helen and not be misogynistic in your view? How would that look?