Baldur Bjarnason1d ago

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116300859215261350

For reasons, I'm reminded of this thread from a couple of weeks ago that I wrote in an attempt to remind people to be extra-sceptical of bubble-inflating news coming from those who benefit from a financial bubble, even if it looks plausible

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Anybody who, during a trillion dollar financial bubble coupled with an equally seismic political movement, routinely picks up the plausible-sounding positive "AI facts" published by people who stand to gain from either bubble or movement is doing both us and themselves a disservice

Even if you truly believe your positive opinion on "AI" is warranted, giving these ideas a platform is equivalent to hyping up sub-prime mortgages in late 2007. It's fundamentally irresponsible even if you were right

Show threadBaldur Bjarnason1d ago
Or, to use a different bubble as an example, no matter how strongly you believed in the web, long term, talking up dot-com stocks at the tail end of that bubble would have been fundamentally irresponsible and, indeed, would have been a big red flag to others signalling that you are a major unrepentant asshole
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@baldur I only have a hunch who this might be referring too, but I had that same thought this morning. Also nicely dovetails with the "liberal reasonableness fetish" thread that went viral yesterday. 😬🫣
Apr 7 at 1:51pmWeb