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Well I think the author got one thing right: > The “Pop” in “Pop Culture” stands for “popularity”. If it’s popular then it must be right. And that's social me
by kerblang 4y ago
Well I think the author got one thing right:
> The “Pop” in “Pop Culture” stands for “popularity”. If it’s popular then it must be right.
And that's social media simplified. The internet is filled with pop-seeking garbage because pop was the best metric anyone could fathom. Even now the AI's are struggling to reach for a better version of "right".
But more to the author's point, yes, modern tech startups and their funders are absolutely obsessed with being trendy, even moreso than an 80's teenager (a lot of the big players were 80's teenagers, btw).
- entropicdrifter 4y agoKind of a nitpick, but AIs mostly don't get to choose what's "right". I mean they're trained with a particular goal in mind already, so either their training data or whatever metric their self-training is set to optimize defines "right" for them in advance. It's not AIs that are struggling to find a better version of "right", it's people building AIs.
- dcow 4y agoIt’s true. People believe you can raise money on having a trendy feeling product idea with very little merit… and sadly they are right. It baffles me.