"The fatigue/fear is reasonable, but it does not matter -- the world will not stop for you or anyone."
It's not about stopping specific technology from advancing. HN is just source of news and discussion. Imagine if HN active threads were about technology or something that you are not excited about. Would you not feel tired of seeing every 2nd/3rd post about the same topic that you are not interested in?
There's too much here. These discussions are simultaneously "late" and "very very early".
I think the only viable/healthy approach is to understand these changes, adapt, incorporate, and include them in the way you interface with the world.
...like anything else in life, really. But the potential impact of these developments are immense and barely just beginning to be understood.
3.0 was interesting. 3.5 is uncanny. 4.0 is a few months away. This is not stopping.