On: Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

[dang]

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.

[sosodev → dang]

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.