1/ Lately, this has unnerved me A LOT. If you say a few buzzwords and have at least a tutorial-level understanding of them (e.g. "deep learning"), otherwise smart people often feel compelled to give you their time, money, or business thinking, "I've struck gold." https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1123023204510052352 …
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3/ Except — and I'm historically ignorant here so correct me where I'm wrong — a lot of people selling hot tech have heard, "you're a computer genius," for their whole lives. So it's a very easy delusion to buy and sell.
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Yeah, the minting and selling of narrative to the less clueful is a very big bubble. It ends with the end of as-if growth... hopefully sometime before humanity disappears in a new carboniferous era
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I hadn't heard "as-if growth" before. That is a very apt phrase.
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lol yes I am familiar with this phenomenon (because drones)
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