Just like the nerds thought about computers, or the internet, or video games, or smartphones, or crypto, or... whatever.

The most passionate, intelligent people are usually a decent indicator of where culture is going to go.

> The most passionate, intelligent people are usually a decent indicator of where culture is going to go.

Many very smart people who I know are quite skeptical of LLMs and the hype around them. In my observation/echo chamber, the people who are very into LLMs are rather slick, career-minded people who love to present themselves as trendsetters for the "next fancy thing".

The most passionate, intelligent people 1. aren’t spending a lot of time on smartphones, video games and crypto and 2. aren’t as much smarter or better at predicting the future as the barely above average people who mistakenly count themselves in their ranks like to think.

Steve jobs wasn’t a nerd - he said he’s a hippie on the lost interview. He was also the first to bring to market colour screens, typography etc. He also defined the Internet as the defining ‘social moment’ way before anyone else.

So you’re wrong pal, sorry.

Most of those technologies were controversial in their inception among the nerds of the time. Remember Eternal September? Linux/Windows people making fun of Apple hipster fans? Mainframe engineers deriding PCs are unserious and video games as childish?

>The most passionate, intelligent people are usually a decent indicator of where culture is going to go.

That's a naive view of cultural determinism. The software landscape would have been very different if a handful of lawsuits had gone one way or another. Hell, even Unix and Linux were hobby projects that accidentally got big.

Also crypto is a grift lol, one of those is definitely not like the others