@adamconover Amazing video, but one nitpick/addendum: tech hype isn't just for investors.

When I was at a mid-level tech company a few years back, *every* dev in the building owned and talked relentlessly about crypto. They believed the hype, too, because tech's greatest cons are about hooking the workers. Helps to make sure they screw over everyone else while not asking too many pesky questions.

@adamconover Also, this crossed my feed:

https://artificialcorner.com/youre-using-chatgpt-wrong-here-s-how-to-be-ahead-of-99-of-chatgpt-users-886a50dabc54

It's an article on how to coach ChatGPT to give you correct answers. But if you know enough about what you're asking to coach it, why use it all? You obviously know enough to just go look the stuff up yourself.

@adamconover I know the firing the weatherman bit is supposed to be a joke but that literally happened in Hungary last year. The head of the state meteorology department was fired because they warned the government to cancel a national holiday's firework display due to a probable (but not certain) storm. There was no storm, so they fired him.

ps.: Glad to see you on fedi! UwU

@adamconover Man. Much needed #sense from the man of sense himself. So much #AI #FUD out there. AI isn't nearly as good as people think -- especially its fearmongers. It's more that most people are generally aesthetically predictable, and thus heavily susceptible to LLM patterns -- or to think their results are good.

It won't be #GreyGoo it will be more like mush -- but the fact is, it already is. Mass human sensibility already is.