I’ve now lived through like 4-5 tech cycles accompanied by “but what is the use of X?” and “old Y can do what new X does and more, and better” conversations.
Sheer waste of time.
It never matters. X will do what X will do.
X and Y people rarely learn anything from the debate.
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what if these conversations are more ??!! at the treatment of X like it's doing something entirely new
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They never are. It’s almost always “put the young whippersnappers in their place, how dare they disrespect hallowed traditions and fail to pay obseisance to this vaguely related thing?”
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In 2009 - “my iPhone can do anything the iPad does”
They never understood the delta
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I’ve lived through a similar number. I’ve found that Xes which can adequately answer that question succeed and survive and Xes which don’t, don’t.
It’s the definition of success. Plenty of highly visible tech failed to answer the question and quietly died.
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The real issue is Z, the pool from which X is drawn. Z is a mixed bag that produces not only X (seeds), but also X' (weeds). So a clash between X and Y may not only help, but be necessary to sift the weeds out from the seeds.
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I can't get over how much it seems like a waste of time and energy to "oppose" blockchains. It's almost worse than the waste from PoW.
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+1. And often the emergent phenomena from X end up being substitutional replacements for Y after all, but with counterintuitive beginnings.







