AI is a rare example of an extremely hyped thing that almost everyone still underestimates the impact of in even the medium-term. what are other examples of this from the past couple of decades besides the iPhone? i'm curious what we can learn.

Aug 15, 2022 · 8:22 PM UTC

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Nuclear Fusion
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Web3.. Specifically blockchain for public clouds or distributed compute. This in conjunction with AI will be massive.
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A second thing that is hyped but underestimated: The end of physicalism Questionable new agers and spiritualists have been hyping “mind over matter” since the 70s But we’ve empirically reached a point where physicalism (the idea that reality is made of matter) is dead
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Nuclear power
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#Bitcoin
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If you read enough history about the computer, it feels roughly the same as AI
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China. People outside China are still underestimating China.
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the Internet - everyone is hyped obv but it's ultimately going to be the end of the dominance of the nation state, the decoupling of our physical selves from interpersonal social presence, and the end of the part of our relationship with matter that involves photon reflectance
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#Bitcoin
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the internet
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