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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2/ I guess that's historically true for technology, but it's extremely weird for me to experience. Like, I'll start explaining an idea of mine by introducing the current "state of the art," and it generates salivating interest BEFORE I GET TO MY PART. Feels very tulip-y.
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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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> You’re reading the result of a human informational centipede where a CEO orders a marketing guy to publish bullshit which is then consumed by decision makers who pay for investments in technology which doesn’t do what they think it does.pic.twitter.com/6Av9Ytg45e
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