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• CamperBob2 9mo ago
  The problem is, that's only one way you could have lost your ass during the transition from horses to cars. I think that's what skydhash was getting at. There were hundreds of early car companies, all competing aggressively with one another, each with something to sell that the others seemed to lack. For every one that succeeded, dozens ended in bankruptcy, and not necessarily through any obvious fault of their own. You could be right about everything and still end up broke. How to avoid being a Duryea, a Knox, a Marsh, a Maxwell-Briscoe, or a Pope-Toledo seems to be the real question. Same thing pretty much happened in the early days of radio, with the addition of vicious patent wars. Which I'm sure we'll eventually see in the AI field, once the infinite money hose starts to dry up.
  • skydhash 9mo ago
    And even if AI becomes a staple of daily life, why the rush? No ones today learn how to drive cars on the Model T. I’ve never even used win 95 and earlier, and learned about Linux around 2010. Now I’ve been reading the latter’s source code.