It does take tremendous talent and knowledge to build what he built, saying anything else is not just dishonest but weirdly cynical if not hateful. I think you grossly underestimate how difficult it is to build anything good. Not an easy thing to follow up all the expectations set after a massive global hit like that, a classic dilemma of a successful artist.

There's a level of talent necessary to be a one-hit-wonder, yes. But I think what makes someone a one-hit-wonder and not a career star is that their success was driven by luck more than by talent. In this case "luck" is being in the right place at the right time: that nexus where cultural and technological timing is perfect for a phenomenon to appear and take hold.

> a one-hit-wonder, yes

He’s had multiple hits as an savvy acquirer.

Also you know, for programmers, say a 3 day work week is right there up for grabs. Even still employers would see big productivity increases.

Programmers no longer have any leverage now they can all be replaced by machines. It doesn't matter how productive you are, the system will always demand more.

This hype too will pass. It's always ebb and flood...

you know what most of us end up doing on those other days? we start side tech projects that require even more effort for even little return.

You can't trust us with self-care. There's just too many shiny toys out there!

Speak for yourself!

I think this is excitement, not sarcasm :)

Even of the OP was being sarcastic, this type of language is unnecessary.

I started reading that book (seems great!) and stumbled upon this: "And it’s hardly clear that computer scientists will succeed in creating a convincingly-human artificial intelligence any time soon." Made me smile. Took but 8 years, the book was published in 2015. :)

(BTW. I'm super concerned about all the incredible amount of power nvidia has now and in the future. They get to decide the fate of the human race, I feel. And their incentive is just to make as much money as possible, while all negative externalities including the likes of extinction is left to the society to deal with. Sigh.)

Massive wealth inequality bubble bursting from the bottom up?

Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

Alphabet Inc needs to be broken with antitrust. Youtube has to be a separate company.

What a massive failure of democracy that this hasn't happened already. Fuck FAANG.

How is this rant relevant to the article? Are you suggesting that an independent YT would allow adblockers indefinitely?

> Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

It's not neccessarily all locked behind - hopefully, a lot of the creators have local copies of the videos, which they can upload to a competitor, if need be.

> it is not certain that allowing this would pass Apple reviews

Release the app outside the store? Fuck apple and their monopoly abuse control system.

_Everything_ is getting more shit day after day.

Internet is burning. The sources of information are getting scarce, it's almost unbelivable.

How would you design a protocol immune from all the politics? Whatever the implementation, it's just a part of a larger complex system. This is a very hard issue, and trusting Meta or the likes is naive and dangerous with destructive consequences.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...

Whatever it is, I really, really, really, really hope it's doesn't fall into the hands of microsoft, google or the rest. (But of course it will and enshittification ensues.)