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> When something is too good I will always ask, what are the trade offs? Sometimes there aren't trade-offs. The thing about new technology is that it pushes ou
by quotemstr 6y ago
> When something is too good I will always ask, what are the trade offs?
Sometimes there aren't trade-offs. The thing about new technology is that it pushes out the "Pareto frontier", that configuration surface along which trade-offs happen. A classic example is the "fast, good, cheap" trilemma. You can imagine this trilemma as a geometric object (say, a hypersphere) and the particular "fast, good, cheap" trade-off you make as a point on the surface of that object. New technology makes the whole object bigger.
Does the v0 technology have important disadvantages? Sure. LEDs started out being red and dim. Now LEDs are the "too good to be true" option, beating most other lighting sources most of the time in most domains.