It was already digitized. He wanted to make a version without security and privacy protections.

He also copied Friendster.

Insane how? Google had already done it, and it's pretty clear that if someone wants to buy for $1B, it might be worth more than $1B.

2017 was shortly before Google stopped being afraid of being pegged as an AI killbot company.

Most human tasks. Earth-movers and mining-trucks aren't human form.

Most tasks are human tasks.

AI watching videos of humans seems an incredibly inefficient way to solve acrobatic balance. It is just physics and engineering. The hard part is in the materials and assemblages for enabling complex and subtle movements and the fine motor control, not knowing what the motions are.

The insane valuation is for Elon meme vibes and the "vision" of "colonizing Mars", not any of the products.

A content-free 2nd "paragraph" like this turned me off immediately.

> But in the current dev tools gold rush, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is.

The people who are interested in RTK and in criticism of RTK aren't interested in pablum like this.

ok, this one is all mine. So that's even more hurtful as this is 100% me

What if you don't grow intellectually and just slap together a PhD thesis that no one reads?

Then you've benefited nothing beyond the paper and the letters.

It's really the "cheat yourself" problem, except we put some value on that paper and those letters.

More specifically, the CEO said that users are "dumb f*cks" for submitting data to Facebook, the predecessor of Meta.

Why do those "other people" get a free pass to be "in love with the power of administration"?

In academic libraries, because they are experts in their field.