I tried using AI. It scared me.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it for the argument that we cannot tell whether AI is early or late on its sigmoid curve until hindsight.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tom Scott

Topic

ai impact

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Tom Scotts video today re where we are on the AI's impact to society curve was interesting : [VIDEO] I think he's probably right that we're very early on the adoption curve. (even though I always get downvote and call a dumbass when I mention …

• I enjoyed Tom Scott's YT video monologue about this. To summarize, he postulates that most major innovations follow a sigmoid growth curve, wherein they ramp up, explode, and then level off. The question then becomes, where are we on this curve? He concludes that we …

• I tried using AI. It scared me. - Tom Scott [VIDEO] I'm also gonna recommend Accelerando - [LINK] As an aside, I'd also recommend Glasshouse (also by Charles Stross) as an exploration into the human remnants post singularity (and war)... followed by Implied Spaces by …