• Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Honestly the 2008 real estate/subprime bubble felt the same way. People were talking about the bubble popping for what seemed like forever until it actually did.

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      12 hours ago

      And yet, so many people had their retirement totally boned by the surprise collapse. A looooot of people missed the signs of 2007 as they turned into 2008. It wasn’t some clear sign that everyone talked about. Things just felt off and wobbly.

      I dunno, man. I’ve been hearing about the bubble popping for half as long as LLMs have been in popular use. At least 18 months, almost up to 2 years of bubble doomerism for something that’s only been out and really in common use for 3 and a half years or so. To me, that’s closer to the sky is falling doomers that at every year is an economic collapse. Say it 20 years in a row and you’ll get a hit eventually. It’s not skill or accuracy, it’s simply statistics.