[helicalmix]

> Sure, 3d printing has its place (mostly in making plastic parts for things) but it's hardly the revolutionary change in consumer products that it was touted to be. Instead, it's just a hobbiest toy.

how sure are you about that?

https://amfg.ai/industrial-applications-of-3d-printing-the-u...

how positive are you that some benefits in your life are not attributable to 3d-printing used behind the scenes for industrial processes?

> Just like they did when ML was supposed to take over the world

how sure are you that ML is not used behind the scenes to benefit your life? do you consider features like fraud detection programs, protein-folding prediction programs to create, and spam filters valuable in and of themself?

[cogman10]

This honestly made me lol.

I'm sure 10 years from now, assuming LLMs don't prove me wrong, I'll make a similar comment about LLMs and a new hype that I just made about 3d printing, and I'll get EXACTLY this reply. "Oh yeah, well here's a niche application of LLMs that you didn't account for!".

> how positive are you that some benefits in your life are not attributable to 3d-printing used behind the scenes for industrial processes?

See where I said "in consumer products". I'm certainly not claiming that 3d printing is never used and is not useful. However, what I am saying is that it was hyped WAY beyond industrial applications.

In fact, here I am, 11 years ago, saying basically exactly what I'm saying about LLMs that I said about 3d printing. [1]. Along with people basically responding to me the exact same way you just did.

> how sure are you that ML is not used behind the scenes to benefit your life? do you consider features like fraud detection programs, protein-folding prediction programs to create, and spam filters valuable in and of themself?

Did I say it wasn't behind the scenes? ML absolutely has an applicable location, it's not nearly as vast as the hype train would say. I know, I spent a LONG time trying to integrate ML into our company and found it simply wasn't as good as hard and fast programmed rules in almost all situations.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15iju9/3d_print...

[helicalmix]

sorry, maybe i'm not completely understanding what you mean by "in consumer products".

reading your argument on reddit, it seems to me that you don't consider 3d printing a success because there's not one in every home...which is true.

but it feels uncreative? like, sure, just because it hasn't been mass adopted by consumers, doesn't mean there wasn't value generation done on an industrial level. you're probably using consumer products right now that have benefitted from 3d printing in some way.

> ML absolutely has an applicable location, it's not nearly as vast as the hype train would say

what hype train are you referring to? i know a lot of different predictions in machine learning, so i'm curious about what you mean specifically.