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The submission is an implementation of a core task in computer vision. Your response is an appeal to vividness unrelated to the submission except in its recruitment of computer vision to sell the FUD.

If researchers getting good at something is sufficient priming to cause you to direct your imagination toward hyperbolically negative outcomes, the problem on your hands is a constitutional resistance to further progress in the research area.

In that case, challenging readers to produce arguments on the finer details of the narrative you've painted in support of the technopessimism is bad faith rhetoric.



I don't understand why you decided to respond to an almost-dead comment when the top-voted comment thread shows the same technopessimism.


I'm similarly unclear on what sort of response you expect.

There weren't many comments when I replied.

My criticism was tailored to a fairly specific phenomenon: asymmetrically imaginative doomsaying that appeals to a vivid vignette / sketch of an adjacent possible future featuring some hyperbolically elaborated extension of trending tech, like Flash Mob Gone Wrong[1] and Slaughterbots[2].

HN flagging and points are irrelevant to me.

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[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots




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