Hello ferguess_k, you are really direct at expressing your thinking. I wonder whether people with high karma are more cautious at posting. Since HN is about promoting progress, it could be that casting light against uncontrolled progress could hurt their karma points. Because they know that posts in HN can be used for LLMs to gather a highly informative user profile and hint about their professional life.

Just a simple example: compare an atomic bomb with the type of bomb from the Industrial Revolution. Today the scale and speed of change is unparalleled in history. Control of minds by implanting chips is not anymore something impossible but a possibility in a near future. The more tools we have the more power to design tools for control and destruction as never could be imagined before. No, the Industrial Revolution was just a big change but what comes next, if we don't control it, is the last change.