This isnt productive, and the hype is the largest I have ever seen. Ireland–a wealthy developed tech savvy nation–isnt building new homes to address their housing crisis because this shit is taking all the energy and water.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's true. The tech bros are playing the market by blowing bubble after bubble and raising the stakes each time.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta ask what the supervillain-ass end game is.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 2 days ago

Some think they can crash everything, burn it to the ground, to then rebuild it according to their designs.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me the Segway never came back up

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago

The tech itself though is still used in hoverboards, robots and some other self balancing micro mobility devices.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That graph is peak bullshit.

Just because you believe the hype, it doesn't mean there's a milder use case for your application.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately LLM do have one profitable application: generating spam and astroturfing

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

"According to this chart we made up without any explanation, blockchain and nfts and metaverse are going to be pretty useful tools in the future. Just because they were trendy once."