Every other product now is Gen X CEOs who loved Snow Crash working backwards off it. It was one book 30 years ago, people don’t want most of it in reality, there’s other sci-fi shit to spend billions on!
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Yglesias jokes that the real tragedy is the end of 30 minute guarantees on pizza delivery. Also though, if you want a reason not to emulate it, Snow Crash is supposed to be a bit of a dystopia.
Public bathrooms are late modern America in a nutshell in that we had cheap pay bathrooms, a movement of well meaning people tried to make them free and inadvertently persuaded people to get rid of all of them, now the few we build are expensive and overdesigned
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Here's the Wikipedia article about the movement, you know there's way more public restrooms in other countries, almost like this was counter productive? Plus, these days people can pay for things with their phones super easy, it's like you need to have exact change on hand.
Going from humans creating content to humans reviewing the output of AI is going to happen slowly then suddenly across many fields.
What happened to humans translators with the rise of Google Translate will be a more common experience.
I think Noah Smith's take on this was interesting: just like machine tools before it, AI will make high craftsmanship jobs much more boring.