Re:Pray for Chaos
by Planktonne on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:28AM
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I think it degrades the level of discourse on HN when people insist on treating eschatonic navel-gazing as a significant contribution to a separate and ongoing debate.
Just because an insular group of people who share the same unsupported apocalyptic beliefs have labelled themselves as rationalists doesn't mean they are actually being rational; the actual debates around AI and its uses are very far away from the cult-like beliefs espoused here, but the focus turns to them again and again.
It's as if a board for discussing NASA's advances kept getting sidetracked by Raëlists. Discussing these beliefs as though they were serious positions is bad for the field, bad for the discourse, and bad for the writers themselves.
Just because an insular group of people who share the same unsupported apocalyptic beliefs have labelled themselves as rationalists doesn't mean they are actually being rational; the actual debates around AI and its uses are very far away from the cult-like beliefs espoused here, but the focus turns to them again and again.
It's as if a board for discussing NASA's advances kept getting sidetracked by Raëlists. Discussing these beliefs as though they were serious positions is bad for the field, bad for the discourse, and bad for the writers themselves.