2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!
@thomasfuchs what if I told you blockchains actually improved bank security because chained encrypted transactions is an excellent idea from a cryptographic standpoint?
and VR is amazing when it works well, just, none of the commercial directions seem to be aligned with what it actually needs.
NFTs were just a weird use of blockchains.
LLMs/AI have significantly improved what we can do with human language,
but as with any tool, don't give it to an idiot, because they'll do stupid things 🤷
@thomasfuchs I sincerely hope the LLM bubble bursts as fast as the NFT bubble. It feels worse right now (being deployed by a lot more companies at greater scale).
@mr_creosote Touchscreens are a compromise to make small computers more viable; a physical keyboard at the size of phones doesn't really have an advantage and is terrible to use too--even worse, it can't adapt so you'd need an onscreen keyboard anyway (e.g. emoji or for non-latin character languages).
So you might as well do a full on-screen keyboard so you can use the screen the rest of the time when no keyboard is required. (And you can always connect a real keyboard if you want to.)
@thomasfuchs@foone QC isn't mass market enough. Anti-aging is definitely the better bet, and there's profit precedent with all the supplement nonsense the alt-right talk show people have been peddling.
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oh god as a person who was academically interested in the functioning of neural networks before they became infinity scams, and has a passing intrest in quantum computing, please not again @foone
@thomasfuchs@foone somewhat tangential, but one of my favorite perennial @web3isgreat features is the "quantum-resistant blockchain" that can't seem to even be resistant to the non-quantum-related hacks
@molly0xfff@foone@web3isgreat You see, we can't know if the quantum-resistant blockchain is really quantum-resistant because measuring it's quantum resistancy changes the underlying quantum state, in this essay I will
@thomasfuchs I was thinking earlier about hoverboards.
In BttF2 hoverboard were cool things, like skate boards, but they hoovered in mid-air. Yet somehow we were sold cheap tat that were called hoverboards but didn't hover and had wheels; and sometimes caught fire.
Now everyone is trying to sell us AI that isn't intelligent but it's just an algorithm that produces interesting results; and is sometimes wrong.
@foxpotato@thomasfuchs No, that was how VR or «the Metaverse» was pushed by particularly Microsoft: Facebook rebranded as Meta pushed more in the «blobby avatar without legs» social direction, which seemed mote to try and reinvent Second Life.
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