its sad that the informal social media bubbles we all have formally forked[0] into Red Twitter and Blue Twitter. just a direct consequence of filters, feeds, algorithms that we say we dont want but vote for with our actions.
with Latent Space I try very hard to stay practical and grounded. but this means i lose out to other podcasters who get huge hits by asking biglab people their AGI timelines (perpetually 2 years away every 2 years, upper bounds of every estimation conveniently landing within the lifetime of $current_middle_aged_generation)
with AIE i started my agents conference with a loud agents skeptic (https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer/search?query=sayash). that did better online but the audience/sponsors didn't like being told they were overhyping.
[0]: wont stop there - i have called it the Great Unzippening: https://swyx.io/the-great-unzippening