Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. But software thinking has also been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time.
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The best time to buy is when there's blood in the streets. The best time to sell is when there's irrational exuberance. Most people do the opposite.
Charlie Munger — Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting
The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are indifferent to others, remaining by nature blind to facts that are uncongenial to them.
William James — The Principles of Psychology
Vibes are generally established long before facts, and Extremely Online readers (which, in the spirit of this post, we'll assume is most of you) may have already got the sense that India, as a nation, is playing a pretty big role in the proliferation of AI slop. In that context, the chart is likely to feed or reinforce a hunch that India has embraced AI with great gusto. But, like, really?
FT Alphaville