[HN Gopher] Hype is a weaponized form of optimism
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       Hype is a weaponized form of optimism
        
       Author : saltymimir
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-07-10 14:35 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | anovikov wrote:
       | We had hype all the time. It's not recent invention. And in 48
       | years after 1973, per capita GDP increased 2.18x which,
       | extrapolated to a 103 year interval (as between 1870 and 1973)
       | means 5.32x increase which is almost as fast (6.7% slower, which
       | is very easy to explain knowing that U.S. primary energy supply
       | stopped growing in 1973 after skyrocketing in the century
       | before).
       | 
       | In the last 50 years, Western civilisation learned how to do more
       | with less. In the century before, we simply invented new and new
       | ways of throwing more and more non-renewable resources onto all
       | problems we had. Which isn't really all that hard to do - for as
       | long as you may come up with sources for those resources.
       | 
       | Now we do better.
        
         | 11235813213455 wrote:
         | We do better on some things (energy production, automobile, ..)
         | but globally the climate changes remind us that consumerism is
         | way too high, and often hype-driven
        
       | cuteboy19 wrote:
       | It is not fair to lump in AI (rather ML) with NFTs and other
       | assorted garbage. By and large ML has delivered on the hype.
        
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