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You can only promise people self-driving cars and Mars and so on, while actually giving them a somewhat worse Twitter and breaking the government, before they eventually get sick of you, I suppose. Like, I'm sure there are still die-hard Musk superfans out there, but you've got to imagine that a lot of his followers eventually became disillusioned. I've noticed this happening on HN with other stuff to some extent; wa…
I get everything you said except HN turning on AI. I see it many other places but not here. People are experimenting to find the good parts.
A year or so ago HN was basically all in on "this is the singularity"; things are currently drifting somewhat more towards reality.