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@davidgerard What series of events (if any) would cause you to revisit or revise this hypothesis?
For comparison: the "dot com bubble popped" in 2000, but this did not lead to people abandoning commerce on the internet. It just destroyed short-term value, but overall shook out the weak players and made room for better competitors.
@eschaton Like I said, you can feel however you want to feel, but I think telling people to GFT because they're using a tool you dislike isn't great.
I think there are people using these technologies for all sorts of reasons, some bad, some good. I find the idea that we're going to just pretend they're all thieves building NFTs to be overwrought.
I think we should judge people based on what they do, not what tools they use. If someone is passing off your work as theirs? By all means call them out on it. If someone is using a tool you hate to learn things that you aren't teaching them? Good for them, and you telling them to fuck off isn't right, and isn't ok.
@eschaton I think it's fine for you to not use LLMs and not want to, but I also think it's fine for people to use technology to explore technology in ways that you wouldn't and I want those people to come in and have a seat too.
You can kick those people out of your club if you want, but they're welcome in mine. What you can't do - IMO - is kick them out of our shared hobby.
@nelson @zarfeblong Every time I think of "CALL -151" or "3D0G" I'm angry all over again that my neurons are still spent on remembering it.
I wonder if it would blow modern people's minds the extent to which a standard 1980s experience was "Oh, you got a computer? Here's a huge box of pirated software, give it back after you've copied it."
