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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Have you ever read
@nntaleb's Black Swan? This seems roughly like a similar dynamic to me: once the impression of competence one gives to another, especially technological, passes a certain threshold, one seems often to get promoted to "wizard" in the other's eyes.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Basically, it seems to irrationally break the other's faculties for accurately gauging the upside.
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Yea, it's excessively sticky.
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