It takes time for more reflective comments to appear, because reflection is a slower mental operation. Reflexive responses are much faster and tend to be generic and shallow. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...)

I believe this distinction is pretty fundamental to humans, so we're not likely to escape it, but the good news is that reflective comments do show up eventually if the article is substantive and the reflexive ones haven't ruined the thread. We also try to downweight the more reflexive subthreads.

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45625084.

Thank you. Reflexive vs reflective is a good way to frame it. You're right that the reflective comments do show up eventually so I suppose I need to be more patient too.

Maybe they used AI to transcribe and summarize the podcast

Who listens to podcasts at 1x speed? That's unbearably slow!

The trouble is Karpathy already speaks at 1.5x speed.

I do. I'm really not a fan of sped-up audio in general. If I'm focused on speed I'd rather read/skim a transcript.

Just as the core idea of a book can be (lossily) summarized in a few sentences, the core crux of an argument can be quite simple and not require wading though the whole discussion (the AGI discussion is only 30 minutes anyhow).

Granted, a bunch of commenters are probably doing what you’re saying.

Be fair; plenty of people transcribe and read podcasts, and/or summarize/excerpt them.

Summaries are great, but can be surface.

The brain processes and has insights differently experiencing it at conversation speed.

We might get what the conversation was that others had, but it can miss the mark for the listening and inner processing that leads to it's own gifts.

It's not about one or the other for me, usually both.

The idea that people would do this has never even crossed my mind. Not disputing that people do this, mind you. Technology is certainly there, but I also think that it’s very prone to taking ideas out of context.

This one does have the full transcript underneath (wonderful feature). But it's a long read too so I think your assumption is correct :P.

Idk how this Dwarkesh Patel got so popular so fast. I'd never heard of him and he keeps popping up in my feeds.

Eh, Dwarkesh has to market the podcasts somehow. I think it's fine for him to use hooks like this and for HN threads to respond to the hooks. 99% of HN threads only ever reply to the headline and that's not changing anytime soon. This will likely cause many people (including myself) to watch the full podcast when we otherwise might not have.

The criticism that people are only replying to a tiny portion of the argument is still valid, but sometimes it's more fun to have an open-ended discussion rather than address what's in the actual article/video.

99%? I have to stick up for HN here!

Ok, maybe not 99%. Probably at least 50% of comments in 70% of threads, though...

there is a transcript, people can skim for interesting parts and read for 30 minutes and then comment.

edit: typo fix.

gotta listen at 2x speed!

a very human reaction ;)