I'm interested in AI too, nothing wrong with being interested but there are many people who will only care about something or believe in something when everyone else does and it's important to recognize when you see that pattern so you know you're building a community alongside someone who's genuinely excited from first principles, not excited because it's popular to be excited
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Is it important to distinguish between people excited about something from first principles versus those excited because it's popular?
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You’d be backing NO on “Is it important to distinguish between people excited about something from first principles versus those excited because it's popular?” — the opposite of what @kenny argued.
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1 yes · 1 no (casts, from 2 people). These are the classifier’s reading of each cast — not stakes, votes, or a poll.
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I'm interested in AI too, nothing wrong with being interested but there are many people who will only care about something or believe in something when everyone else does and it's important to recognize when you see that pattern so you know you're building a community alongside someone who's genuinely excited from first principles, not excited because it's popular to be excited
i guess, but i think it's perfectly credible to be genuinely interested in both for most of the same reasons