A great example is the DotCom bubble. Wiped out a lot of capital but it really did transform the world.
But also, a lot of the dot com companies that people invested in in 1999 went bust, meaning those specific investments went to zero even if the web as a whole was a huge success financially.
Yeah, but unlike LLMs the Internet was an actual useful technology.
But also, a lot of the dot com companies that people invested in in 1999 went bust, meaning those specific investments went to zero even if the web as a whole was a huge success financially.