I hear the criticism, but sometimes we just can't know if an idea is useful without trying it out. And trying it out can be wildly expensive - in terms of time

I hear the criticism, but sometimes we just can't know if an idea is useful without trying it out. And trying it out can be wildly expensive - in terms of time and money. So its kinda great when someone else does that work on behalf of everyone else. Its taken 60 years of improvements to finally build ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion. If we collectively gave up on AI years ago, we might never know that. We still don't know if VR will ever get good enough for mass market appeal. Facebook (Meta) is investing big. I hope their investment pays off, but we don't know yet! It might not work. But it might! I appreciate the risk their investors are taking. And I think the same is true for visual dataflow programming. We have no idea until someone builds it out. And if their implementation is bad, we might still not know. Any implementation might just be a bad design. Anyway, Brett Victor talks about ideas that go way beyond visual dataflow programming. There's a lot of interesting stuff in there, even if a lot of it might never come to pass.