• WanderingThoughts
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    26 days ago

    Every time somebody starts raving about some tech, it’ll turn out to be a classic hype cycle.

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      26 days ago

      This isnt productive, and the hype is the largest I have ever seen. Ireland–a wealthy developed tech savvy nation–isnt building new homes to address their housing crisis because this shit is taking all the energy and water.

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      26 days ago

      That graph is peak bullshit.

      Just because you believe the hype, it doesn’t mean there’s a milder use case for your application.

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        26 days ago

        Unfortunately LLM do have one profitable application: generating spam and astroturfing

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          26 days ago

          Or smalltalk, or bedtime stories, or taking your fast food order.

          Just anything that’s language and has a tolerance for errors.

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        26 days ago

        “According to this chart we made up without any explanation, blockchain and nfts and metaverse are going to be pretty useful tools in the future. Just because they were trendy once.”

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        25 days ago

        The tech itself though is still used in hoverboards, robots and some other self balancing micro mobility devices.