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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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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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I don’t agree that success or failure has much to do with engaging in those conversations with external parties. There is internal due diligence of course, which is worthwhile, but bad-faith external skepticism almost always costs more to engage than it is worth
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I have no issues with ignoring the skeptics, bad faith or not. But you can’t ignore the market. Which means that it is incumbent on new technologies to solve problems, either new ones, or old ones better/faster/cheaper. This is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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