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IMO, for fear of being label a hype boy, this is absolutely a sign of the impending singularity. We are taking an ever accelerating frame of cultural reference as a given and our expectation is that exponential improvement is not just here but you’re already behind once you’ve released.

I spend the last two years dismayed with the reaction but I’ve just recently begun to realize this is a feature not a flaw. This is latent demand for the next iteration expressed as impatient dissatisfaction with the current rate of change inducing a faster rate of change. Welcome to the future you were promised.




I would disagree. I remember iPhones getting similarly criticized on here. And not iPhone 13 to 14, it was iPhone to iPhone 3g!

The only time people weren’t displeased was increasing internet speeds 15mb to 100mb.

You will keep being dismayed! People only like good things, not good things that potentially make them obsolete


Sorry we disagree. But I think we agree!!




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