Your growth & freedom are also severely limited by some contracts; eg renting your brain 24/7, giving up all rights to any intellectual property for as long as the contract lasts
Here's the link to the relevant part of the parent tweet tree:
As an entrepreneur, employee, or even a candidate: always be able to walk. Otherwise, there's no negotiation, and that ensures a bad deal, for you. Don't accept bad deals, you can easily find yourself losing (not winning!) to not lose even more.
Do not restrict yourself to already walked & well known paths, go to the unknown (blue ocean), research, i.e. learn what nobody knows and cannot be taught, you will be the only one w/ your skills. Nobody is better than you at being you.
Focus on what brings joy to you, your intellectual interests. If you are good at something, the society will want more of that thing from you. If that is a virtuous cycle of joy & freedom or a vicious cycle of capitalist oppression depends only on you.
We all have have things we like to do, focus on what feels like work to others
You don't need to compete and be the best, but you need to be yourself, happy, free, different, and valuable for society, as an artist, engineer, creator, entrepreneur,…
Both web3 and the metaverse jeopardize untapping the relevance of crypto: “X as code”:
$BTC: money
$ETH: contracts
Software is eating the world. Eating the web or VR only delays the unavoidable
Relevant: create value, solve problems, do things that matter, fix what sucks,…
Web3 is a terrible choice of name too
Crypto is undoing a lot of the centralization in web 2.0*, and requires technical knowledge. Today, it should be 1.2 IMHO
* Similarly to Jamstack: less PHP, more REST & static pages. Nobody promised linear evolution…
Many people expect crypto will become easier, more polished, and gain mass adoption
It is about freedom & DIY, avoiding intermediaries & centralization, much like GNU/Linux. It's not about getting rich. In fact normally freedom comes at a cost
Several things may be considered as "triggers" of an AI winter, e.g
—"aging" of teams
—not meeting investor expectations after diminishing returns
—whistleblowers ending the hype by exposing lies
—…
TBH: I think those are symptoms, but not the root cause
If Sutskever's opinion were not relevant enough, it has been seconded by other famous AI researchers, like Brockman, arguably making a point through example, and not just words