>Either way, anyone engaged ... needs to ... read up on those Melanesian cargo cults.
So I had a look at Wikipedia and the cargo cults are not really as advertised:
>The first documented cargo cults were religious movements that foretold followers would imminently receive an abundance of (often Western) food and goods (the "cargo") brought by their ancestors.
>Cargo cults have a wide diversity of beliefs and practices, but typically (though not universally) include: charismatic prophet figures foretelling a coming cataclysm or utopia...
So we are talking a religion rather than mixing up correlation and causation.
The 'AI bubble' seems much more like the dot com bubble or 'railway mania' than a religious thing.
So I had a look at Wikipedia and the cargo cults are not really as advertised:
>The first documented cargo cults were religious movements that foretold followers would imminently receive an abundance of (often Western) food and goods (the "cargo") brought by their ancestors.
>Cargo cults have a wide diversity of beliefs and practices, but typically (though not universally) include: charismatic prophet figures foretelling a coming cataclysm or utopia...
So we are talking a religion rather than mixing up correlation and causation.
The 'AI bubble' seems much more like the dot com bubble or 'railway mania' than a religious thing.