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What's your claim to fame for life's work of using your mind?
Being the first in my family to rise out of poverty through self education. To be fair your response seems somewhat revealing of your own situation.
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I was around then. This feels similar from the perspective of stock prices just going up for absolutely absurd reasons—Allbirds would have fit right in—but AI in some ways seems even worse because much of what was being hawked in the dotcom era was at least something that real people would want to buy: usually poorly executed and unsustainably priced but e.g. Kozmo.com wasn't wrong that a ton of people would love to…
I’m sorry but can you elaborate on how Allbirds fit in here? Thats just seems like a random reference that I do not understand.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BIRD/
This felt a lot like the various companies which got a lot of attention for taking an existing business concept, adding “on the internet”, and cratering when it became obvious they lacked a viable business.
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I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.
The sad part wasn't the bubble bursting... It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need. All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...
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I’m curious, could you demonstrate the difference between “Insanely useful!” and “really good and useful”?
not really, it is my subjective view on how "enabling" it is based on previous experience of not having AI.