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Yo what’s the next hype cycle that smart folks like us should be working on?

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belter 1y ago
The US mix of government and enterprise. You want Capital you need to be MAGA "Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's Billionaire Elegy" - https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-and-silicon-valleys-billionaire-elegy/ https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-and-silicon-valleys... "Secret White House spreadsheet ranks US companies based on loyalty to Trump" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/15/secret-white-house-spreadsheet-ranks-us-companies-loyalty/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/15/secret-white...
- gmd63 1y ago
  Smartest people will be working against that. You're thinking of opportunistic people with myopia.
  - belter 1y ago
    The law firms failed to do so.
    - gmd63 1y ago
      Some of them have certainly flagged themselves as opportunistic and myopic.
  - herval 1y ago
    Pretty much the entire tech industry has bent the knee by now - they even gifted the new ruler with golden statues. It's not just a handful of people...
    - gmd63 1y ago
      Few people have the balls to do the right thing when the risks pass a certain limit. And yet it's most important to do the right thing at the largest scale.
    - zzzeek 1y ago
      and when Trump keels over and dies, what happens then? sort of a brittle business plan
quotemstr 1y ago
Defense will increasingly become a national priority over the next few decades. Pax Americana is teetering.
- deepdarkforest 1y ago
  That and consumer robotics. The latter will explode if (big if) RL and llm reasoning get combined into something solid. Lots and lots of smart people are working on it already of course, we are seeing great improvements but nothing really usable. i think we will finally get to a real hype stage in maybe 3-4 years
Terr_ 1y ago
The next hype-cycle might not relate to software. I'm thinking of the (smaller, shorter) phase where "nanotechnology" was getting slapped onto everything including laundry detergent.
zzzeek 1y ago
mRNA was set to be huge but US voters apparently didnt want it.
rpcope1 1y ago
Probably defense and robotics.
bitmasher9 1y ago
That’s the $100M question. Pick the answer correctly and you’ll get record breaking compensation levels.

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The US mix of government and enterprise. You want Capital you need to be MAGA "Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's Billionaire Elegy" - https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-and-silicon-valleys-billionaire-elegy/ https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-and-silicon-valleys... "Secret White House spreadsheet ranks US companies based on loyalty to Trump" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/15/secret-white-house-spreadsheet-ranks-us-companies-loyalty/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/15/secret-white...

gmd63 1y ago
Smartest people will be working against that. You're thinking of opportunistic people with myopia.
- belter 1y ago
  The law firms failed to do so.
  - gmd63 1y ago
    Some of them have certainly flagged themselves as opportunistic and myopic.
- herval 1y ago
  Pretty much the entire tech industry has bent the knee by now - they even gifted the new ruler with golden statues. It's not just a handful of people...
  - gmd63 1y ago
    Few people have the balls to do the right thing when the risks pass a certain limit. And yet it's most important to do the right thing at the largest scale.
  - zzzeek 1y ago
    and when Trump keels over and dies, what happens then? sort of a brittle business plan

quotemstr 1y ago

Defense will increasingly become a national priority over the next few decades. Pax Americana is teetering.

deepdarkforest 1y ago
That and consumer robotics. The latter will explode if (big if) RL and llm reasoning get combined into something solid. Lots and lots of smart people are working on it already of course, we are seeing great improvements but nothing really usable. i think we will finally get to a real hype stage in maybe 3-4 years

Terr_ 1y ago

The next hype-cycle might not relate to software. I'm thinking of the (smaller, shorter) phase where "nanotechnology" was getting slapped onto everything including laundry detergent.

zzzeek 1y ago

mRNA was set to be huge but US voters apparently didnt want it.

rpcope1 1y ago

Probably defense and robotics.

bitmasher9 1y ago

That’s the $100M question. Pick the answer correctly and you’ll get record breaking compensation levels.