He is a bit more of a PR person rage-farming disguised as a futurist. He's not optimizing for correct predictions. That's really hard and not his incentive.

Look at his incentives. It makes more sense.

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ACCount37 6 hours ago | parent [-]

There's a demand for loud and confident "AI tech will fail" and "big tech will fail", so it pays to peddle the goods.

A lot of people desperately want AI to be a nothingburger. Thus, they will seek a second opinion that just so happens to line up with their existing one. Wishful thinking at its finest.

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elictronic 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There are an even larger amount of people who have gotten tired of the NFT levels of pushiness AI has become from a financial perspective. It's become worse than crypto bros at this point.

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ACCount37 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Sometimes the thing being pushed as "the next big thing" is, in fact, the next big thing. Regardless of how annoying you find the push to be.

	▲	elictronic 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Push is fine, to the detriment of society and farcical levels of current usage is a bit of a problem. I’m going to be so happy once these morons ipo. No point in running the ai spam accounts at that point.