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Not to be a grumpy old man, but I will say, my known original definition of Web 3.0 was the Semantic Web [1] but I have no idea if that definition came before the one in TFA about those selling javascript webpage controls marketing their latest spinner product spinning it as web 3.0 > web 2.0.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

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web 3.0 - decentralized communities worshiping their own AI gods (content generators)

Web 3.0 = Semantic Net

Web 3.1 = NFT/Blockchain

Web 3.2 = AI Large Language Models spurting content into the ecosystem

Web 3.0 = Semantic Net

"Web3" = crypto nonsense

Web 3.0 ≠ Web3

Web 3.0 = Semantic Net

Web 3.1 = Virtual Assets backed by cryptography encoding/decoding

Web 3.11 = Search for Workgroups built by $2 an hour Kenyan workers

> https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/openai-paid-kenyan-workers-le...

Looking forward to every era from now on being the new Web 3.X. Web 3.3-2, beta release C, coming soon.

Why do people always bring this up? Not to be rude but who gives a shit? You and some others wanted a term to mean something, everyone else disagreed and moved on. Let it go seriously

I suppose the point was that if every new tech is termed as web3.0 in the past decade and it still is something out there in the future, the least you can do is question it.

Seems like we need a new meme. `current_year` will be the year of web 3.0!

Language models and crawling the web for semantic data is sort of the same thing. It's like, an argument could be made that ChatGPT is itself a Semantic-created Internet.

If AI becomes the way we consume data then Semantic patterns will only help it.

> Not to be rude but...

And then you proceeded to intentionally use rude and abrasive language.

You can disagree with someone and challenge their opinion without using phrases like "who gives a shit" and "let it go".

That's a fairly vitriolic take on what I understand to be a pretty benign opinion.

Am I missing some context here?

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