That the speculative opinions of famous researchers are a good starting point for curious conversation.

I mean, HN is no stranger to cults of personality. Post a paulg essay that says something a teenager could write and it'll fly up to position 1.

True. We have our gods, same as every other tribe throughout history.

Is it worse than "Rich CEO expressing certainly over his hunch"

fair point, I appreciate AI researcher intuition about AI much more than CEO hunch boldly stated but not even firm on the terminology.