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the average tech exec and venture capitalist and honestly an alarming amount of bay area software engineers have close to zero interaction or connection with regular people, and the richer they are, the more isolated they've become. They have built rationalizations for everything.

To make matters worse, there're an alarming amount of tech/biz reporters that are similarly-isolated, at least in how they learn about and experience tech. "The truth" is what's said by the companies, "the future" is defined by who gets the venture investment and captures people's minds on Twitter.

The AI bubble exploited everything about the valley, especially the media: tons of funding rounds and personnel changes, with the thinnest-possible analysis of what the tools can do outside of (I shit you not) asking the people making them. It's frustrating, and ultimately harmful.

It's scary to accept this, but know that the vast majority of people believe that AI is the next big thing because a bunch of rich/powerful people spent a lot of money, and the media repeated their plans as if they were already complete because spent so much money.

Sure, sure, people looked at LLMs and said "wow they can generate code," but the extrapolation from there to "literally replacing 50% of workers" is entirely a result of the cult-like worship of the wealthy and the belief that big money can never be wrong, even though it has been before.

Maybe Silicon Valley was always run by MBAs instead of engineers, but I don't think it was so obvious until "software as a service" took off, and it's only gotten worse since then. It seems like all modern tech is born from a get-rich-quick impulse rather than purpose-built for a real world use.

“very little about what Silicon Valley is doing is actually about tech anymore, including in how it's covered. It's personalities and funding rounds and whatever's "going viral" that week.” You have to find reporters who can understand the tech talks first. There ain’t any.

They are lost easy, especially when we talk about the mathematical logic basis of AI and the statistical theory we used in LLM, (which are important to understand the limitations of current paradigms of AI)

That would be the TESCREAL factor. It's effing everywhere, and it's created an alternate universe with its own vernacular and permission structures. They haven't been really living 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 for a good while now. dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

One of these days a Silicon Valley tech ceo group chat is gonna leak and it’s going to be impetus for a real life purge event