Most people on Hacker News don't want to live in the "Intelligence Age"

Since my LinkedIn is full of people shilling for Sam Altman and his latest blog post - https://ia.samaltman.com/ - I read it and like many of you didn't like it for several reasons.

However, I thought, instead of dissecting the torrent of bad ideas and half baked assumptions that's in the post, I'd look at what HackerNews thinks about it.

So I scrapped the related discussion from here https://lnkd.in/e5keEd8H and pushed it through a tool we are building. Have a look at the resulting Prisma dashboard here https://t.ly/q-8v9

A few interesting things that stand out after just 2 minutes:

- CrowdPrisma found just 4 main clusters of comments, each talking about different themes on average. You can quickly run through them by pressing the Ctrl (Cmd) key + 1, then 2, then 3, then 4.

- For example group 1 has comments that are always replies (never a 1st comment) and are mainly about the theme "The intersection of technology and sustainability". This is of course in response to Altman's claim that his amazing vision demands exorbitant amounts of energy.

- Group 2 is almost exclusively about the topic " Integrity in Communication", a mostly negative set of comments from people who basically just call BS on the whole vision - with some very entertaining comments.

- Interestingly (and replicated across several HN dashboards), the longer a discussion goes on (more replies and replies to the replies) the more civil and less negative the sentiment gets. Create a filter on the "Comment position" chart and drag it from left to right to reproduce it. It's almost like in some corners of the internet, people can still discuss stuff (even contentious issues) without escalation and insanity.

- Old HN users are way less negative than new users (do the same as above, define a range on the "User signup" chart, then pull it to the left, then to the right).