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The author isn't exactly a thought leader in the space, or really any space for that matter. Opinion worth nothing.
by 1945 1y ago
The author isn't exactly a thought leader in the space, or really any space for that matter. Opinion worth nothing.
- nathan_compton 1y agoI've never met a "thought leader" whose opinion was worth anything.
- aydyn 1y ago"Thought leader" isn't an actual title (or at least it shouldn't be). In my mind, its simply someone who you recognize as having the expertise worth paying attention to.
- cjbgkagh 1y agoIt’s a title that is given to people to get them to present at junkets, a modern socially and legally acceptable way to bribe people. No one should take them seriously.
- aydyn 1y agoOk, I didn't know that. I thought it was just a shorthand for people in leadership positions with lots of expertise.
- 4ndrewl 1y agoI'm a "thought follower". Wherever my leaders tell me to go, I follow.
- roywiggins 1y agoHave bubbles ever been successfully called by thought leaders?
- hasperdi 1y agoYes. Say there are 10000 thought leaders with different thinkings. There's a chance that at least one is right.
- MattGrommes 1y agoYep. Then they're the lottery winner that gets to go on TV and write a book about it as if it was expertise that led to their prediction.
- alephnerd 1y agoIf by "thought leader" you mean domain experts making criticism then yes. For example, Nouriel Roubini calling out the risks of the 2008 Recession before it happened, Michael Pettis calling out the risks of a real estate balance sheet crisis in China before Evergrande happened, and Arvind Subramanian calling out the risks of a a shadow bank crisis in India before the ILFS collapse in 2018. For AI/ML, I'd tend to trust Emily Bender, given her background in NLP which itself was what became LLMs originated from.
- rsynnott 1y agoHrm. I'd read "thought leader" to mean "hype man"; that's how the term is normally used. I certainly wouldn't read it as "domain expert"; the people generally referred to as 'thought leaders' frequently are not.
- exasperaited 1y agoBut people being just a "thought leader in the space" is exactly the reason there's a bubble. Bubbles are a lot easier to visualise from the outside.
- yahoozoo 1y agoIs Sam Altman a thought leader?
- Henchman21 1y agoIMO “thought leaders” only set the agenda of groupthink. So… yes?
- xracy 1y agoNever quite realized how much I disliked the term "Thought Leader" until I read it 5x in the comments responses of this thread.
- 1945 1y agoI should have said domain expert instead. These two casually chosen words really riled them up
- xracy 1y agoI just said the word "domain expert" in my head 5x, and I don't like it any better. Both of them give off "influencer" vibes. They're meaningless without more context. We used to just call people "experts", but now that's an arbitrarily bad word.
- JeremyNT 1y agoIt's just another anecdote, but the "vibes" feel like they're shifting. The employment numbers, the inflation numbers, government austerity, the gpt-5 disappointment... the valuations are all more like meme stocks and not based on reality. If enough articles about the crash start appearing, and enough people believe the crash is coming, the congratulations: the crash will occur.