[travisjungroth]

I think you’ve got some combination of a utopia fallacy and a straw man going on here.

I just want to contrast two things. First, blockchain had a lot of hype around utility that never materialized. It is really quite a minority that ever used it for anything besides buying it on a platform and hoping it would go up. The big adoption was always about to happen.

Second, ChatGPT is totally different from this. Its usage is not future tense. It is present tense and past tense. I can’t get across how different “someone will use this tomorrow” is from “someone used this yesterday”.

People are wildly excited about the future and things that haven’t been built. This does not change the fact that millions of people are using this every day to solve their problems. Saying “we haven’t figured out stuff it’s useful for” is just wrong.

Lately I feel like I’m at a park with people who are saying there probably isn’t going to be any wind today while I’m already flying a kite.