Hacker News with Generative AI: Skepticism

Coenzyme Q10 (domofutu.substack.com)
Every once in a while, I like to pump the brakes and apply some skeptical pressure to my supplement stack. Blind faith may work wonders for televangelists, but when it comes to health supplements, skepticism is the only saint worth venerating. And the latest bottle to feel the heat of scrutiny? Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).

Health, Supplements, Skepticism

7 points by domofutu 3 days ago | 0 comments

Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator and 'Real-Life Scully,' Dies at 80 (nytimes.com)
Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator and ‘Real-Life Scully,’ Dies at 80

Obituaries, Paranormal, Skepticism

7 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 3 comments

The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration (hils.substack.com)
The people who are most skeptical of AI are often those with the highest standards for quality. They've spent years honing their craft and see their work as deeply personal. To them, AI-produced work feels empty and soulless.

Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism, Collaboration, Creativity

47 points by swyx 6 days ago | 58 comments

Ask HN: Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI (ycombinator.com)
Curious who you all follow for thoughtful, well-balanced takes on AI, particularly in the context of software engineering.

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism, Hacker News, Community Recommendations

14 points by wronginternet4 9 days ago | 15 comments

The phony comforts of useful idiots (thetechbubble.substack.com)
Hello everyone, this week will be a fun one because we've been flooded by such stupid developments. Today's essay is on the subject of AI skepticism and the shallow limits of our debates about AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism, Technology, Opinion

44 points by sksxihve 15 days ago | 5 comments

Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics (sampatt.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism

4 points by SamPatt 29 days ago | 2 comments

Gary Marcus discusses AI's technical problems (cacm.acm.org)
In an age of breathless predictions and sky-high valuations, cognitive scientist Gary Marcus has emerged as one of the best-known skeptics of generative artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, he recently wrote a book about his concerns, Taming Silicon Valley, in which he made the case that “we are not on the best path right now, either technically or morally.”

Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism, Generative AI

23 points by pseudolus 70 days ago | 29 comments

The phony comforts of AI skepticism (platformer.news)
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Skepticism, Opinion

8 points by frereubu 139 days ago | 2 comments

Elon Musk given Rusty Razor pseudoscience award (skeptic.org.uk)
Twitter owner Elon Musk has today been named the 2024 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award, the prize given by The Skeptic to the year’s worst promoters of pseudoscience

Elon Musk, Pseudoscience, Awards, Skepticism

13 points by mikehall314 188 days ago | 0 comments

The Crackpot Index (wikipedia.org)
The Crackpot Index is a number that rates scientific claims or the individuals that make them, in conjunction with a method for computing that number.

Science, Humor, Skepticism

5 points by higgins 219 days ago | 1 comments

Due to AI fakes, the "deep doubt" era is here (arstechnica.com)
Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we're seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of what I'm calling "deep doubt."

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Media, Skepticism

11 points by Archelaos 220 days ago | 0 comments

Does Astrology Work? (clearerthinking.org)

Astrology, Science, Skepticism

21 points by pmzy 259 days ago | 183 comments

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (davidv.dev)

Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Skepticism, Software Engineering, DevOps

11 points by signa11 271 days ago | 2 comments

What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong? (nytimes.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Society, Skepticism

11 points by JumpCrisscross 286 days ago | 2 comments

OCaml for the Skeptical (2006) (lib.uchicago.edu)

Programming Languages, OCaml, Skepticism, Education

4 points by nequo 296 days ago | 0 comments

Psychology might be a big stinkin' load of hogwash and that's just fine (experimental-history.com)

Psychology, Science, Philosophy, Skepticism

47 points by nickwritesit 322 days ago | 20 comments

Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites (theconversation.com)