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Technically, all this is beyond the ability of the average teen on the hacking side, unlike previous generations where you could get into the engineering side with basic high school skills and knowledge. You either need to be a prodigy or older, like ~22
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I wonder if it's easier for teenagers to grok? if they don't have any significant pre-existing models
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While impressive, this side is more like being good at twitter on web2 and building geocities pages on web1. It's geeky early adopter user skill rather that may or may not lead on to skill on the other side of the fence. Necessary but not sufficient.
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Much easier. I wouldn’t understand half as much as I do if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve got kiddos who are into gaming. There’s an entire generation of creators growing up with Roblox, Minecraft, and other sandbox dev environments. It’s gonna be wild.
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Ie, it's not just age. The tech is itself more complex. There's just a lot more to understand before you get to a usable level of working knowledge, either as a user or a builder.
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Random aside... I think people give kids too much credit. There's certain advantages to being 14 that make certain things go much faster, but it's not some sort of state of divinely innocent supergenius for all. Most are just some early version of their future mediocre selves.
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Yeah yeah holy war school is a prison that destroys kids blah blah soap box... ...but don't let criticisms of schooling fool you into thinking everybody would be a genius if it weren't for school ruining their beautiful little minds It's the same spread of idiots every cohort
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Anyhow... all this stuff needs like an order of magnitude better toolchains and conceptual simplification before us mediocrities of any age grok it well enough to create gdp on it
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Sorry but this is a cope. Facebook and twitter are "cultural" too and I immersed and got good at them, but I'm not fooling myself that I get how to build complex web platforms because I speak emoji-english pidgin reasonably fluently
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The best way to intuit is to engage, immerse and participate. It is harder to grok for long-term tech people because it's not just technological in nature which is their strength. It's cultural. An essay explaining the mechanics will never quite capture it
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Everything is both technological and cultural in nature, and I'm enough of a tech determinist to believe that the interesting and high leverage stuff is happening at the tech foundations. The culture layer is merely where most are able to participate.
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tldr -- this wave of tech is just more complex.This will have implications... A good metric would be something like: ratio of web browser users to home page builders in 1999 vs. Ratio of people running full bitcoin nodes vs. simply holding a bit of crypto in coinbase
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Merely holding is no harder than banking or basic stock trading. It’s doing more with it that’s too hard. I suspect there’s several orders of magnitude fewer people who’ve done any DeFi thing than just holding some coin.