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   pmonks (330ppm) (pmonks@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 01:56:36 JST pmonks (330ppm)

   • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
   • Matthew Lyon

   @mattly @janl 100% this. I feel like the tech industry is *desperate* to recreate the massive growth opportunities networking, and then mobile computing created, but are completely clueless to the facts that:
   a) most of this shit they’re betting on has little to no real world utility (see crypto/blockchain, and now “AI”)
   b) networking and mobile computing were both (largely) hardware driven innovations at their core - the software “painted by numbers” the fundamental opportunities the hardware created
   c) it’s quite possible there will never be another computer-tech-related innovation of the scale or real-world value of those two, and that’s ok

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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 01:31:35 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

     Fun fact, I was recently in a conversation where wanted to count all the bubble-hypes to make a separate point and I couldn’t for the life of me remember the metaverse. That’s how great that went 😅
     https://chaos.social/@isotopp/112869844292570152

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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 01:56:35 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

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     • Matthew Lyon

     @pmonks @mattly everybody always wants to become the only intermediary between a thing that a lot of people want and only a few can make.

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     ⛈️ Information ⛈️ (elucidating@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 02:18:56 JST ⛈️ Information ⛈️

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     • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
     • Matthew Lyon

     @pmonks @mattly @janl May I submit a slightly different take on the "AI" bit?

     It's that the investment class read one surprising paper and suddenly realized they've been sleeping on a field that is *already mined for explosive growth opportunities.* Chatbots are not new and not substantially improved by LLMs. Diffusion models are just a different take on already existent technologies (although they can be pushed incrementally further). They *missed the boat* and are having a fomo fit.

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     ⛈️ Information ⛈️ (elucidating@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 02:18:56 JST ⛈️ Information ⛈️

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     • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
     • Matthew Lyon

     @pmonks @mattly @janl The reason the cryptocurrency grifters had such an easy time transferring from one sinking ship to another is that they were already existing in a world of pure FOMO pandering. They're like the Bane of FOMO, they grew up with it rather than simply adopting it.