Hacker News with Generative AI: Debate

MCP – Flash in the Pan or Future Standard? (langchain.dev)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is creating quite the stir on Twitter – but is it actually useful, or just noise? In this back and forth, Harrison Chase (LangChain CEO) and Nuno Campos (LangGraph Lead) debate whether MCP lives up to the hype.

Language Models, Artificial Intelligence, Debate, Technology, Twitter

6 points by chaosprint 35 days ago | 3 comments

Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow (marginalrevolution.com)
I’ve already covered much of this in my podcast with Dwarkesh, but I thought it would be useful to write it all out in one place. I’ll assume you already know the current state of the debate. Here goes:

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Prediction, Debate

23 points by amrrs 62 days ago | 10 comments

Is there ever a good reason to debate someone who is not arguing in good faith? (reddit.com)
Is there ever a good reason to debate someone who is not arguing in good faith?

Debate, Communication, Argumentation, Philosophy, Ethics

14 points by squircle 78 days ago | 15 comments

The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers (serce.me)
There is so much debate online about the usefulness of LLMs. While some people see giant leaps in productivity, others don’t see what the fuss is about. Every relevant HackerNews post now comes with a long thread of folks arguing back and forth. I call it the new Great Divide.

Software Engineering, AI, Productivity, Debate

64 points by todsacerdoti 78 days ago | 24 comments

Show HN: Socratify: Learn by Debating – critical thinking coach (socratify.com)
Learn and debate interesting ideas every day5 min dialogues with an AI coach

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Debate, Learning

9 points by adidoit 131 days ago | 4 comments

The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy" (wordpress.com)
The 2019 paper “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor” asserted that Google’s Sycamore quantum computer, with 53 qubits and a depth of 20, performed a specific computation in about 200 seconds. According to Google’s estimate, a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to complete the same computation.

Quantum Computing, Google, Science, Technology, Debate

183 points by nsoonhui 136 days ago | 118 comments

Gravity is not a force (superposer.substack.com)
The debate about whether gravity is a force since it has just flared up yet again so I thought now would be a good time to give Substack a start, and wade in. The debate is partly semantics, and sometime a bit of physics-trolling but it’s weirdly heated, I think because it hinges on differing attitudes to geometry and field theory.

Physics, Science, Semantics, Debate

53 points by Luc 180 days ago | 147 comments

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs. C for Linux debate (theregister.com)
Linux is 33 years old. Its creator, Linus Torvalds, still enjoys an argument or two but is baffled why the debate over Rust has attracted so much heat.

Linux, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Debate

34 points by laktak 219 days ago | 13 comments

Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition) (blogspot.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Debate, Opinion

81 points by weinzierl 287 days ago | 101 comments

A Hot Dog Isn't a Sandwich (prnewswire.com)

Food, Language, Debate

6 points by sharpshadow 297 days ago | 19 comments

Show HN: AI-mediated debates that pay you to prove people wrong (credos.ai)

Artificial Intelligence, Debate, Crowdsourcing, Online Communities, Finances

14 points by coldsoldier 299 days ago | 3 comments

Survival Situation: The debate over evolution and its discoverer (theamericanscholar.org)