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by neiman 20 days ago
Honestly, who likes any hype in anything ever? Especially if you genuinely like and understand the thing being hyped.
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Agreed, but I do think this is a wholly different kind of hype. With crypto currencies it was the promise of modernizing value exchange, with some zealots promising the end of traditional currency.

With this, I’m hearing (from supposedly reputable publications, in addition to random people) that this is going to end knowledge work in general and take out a large percentage of the world’s labor force. I’m being told to pick up a trade, and that the career I have and the knowledge I’ve gained is now worthless.

The worst part seems to be that it’s pretty much impossible to quantify any kind of impact these tools will have until after the impact is actually felt. We’ve been in limbo while the tech sector is just rotting.

It is great for video games because it gives you fresh noobs to pwn instead of having to face the sweats. I can’t really play the old fps games I like anymore not because they are dead, they are very much alive, but everyone still playing has been playing nonstop for years now and are way above me in skill.
C-suites. Marketers. People with stock portfolios. Banks. Politicians.

So all people that don’t understand the thing being hyped.

Basically all people with monetary investment in the thing being hyped
Stocks and politics I guess.