@arichtman yea, I'm talking here even at the level of "what is a token," but maybe to a degree I'm also frustrated at broader pieces like even a cursory understanding of the economics or especially the psychological factors being actively exploited in the business models.

A hobbyist who got curious one afternoon knows more about these topics than people tasked with wielding massive amounts of dollars and setting business direction that impacts thousands of people.

I understand that the higher up the chains you go, the greater the scope of possible topics and the greater the degrees of abstraction involved as well as the dependency on purported subject matter experts to summarize it for you. But there is just such a massive gap between the level of understanding of the topics, and the "urgency" and scope of impact and change being imposed.

If you're going to be leveling this amount of upheaval, does not that warrant even an afternoon's or, heck, a week's focused attention on a subject? I understand that the whole industry is just a giant hype train firehose of opinions and shifting sands (supercharged in no small part by the information overload that LLMs themselves enable), but do you not owe it to the people whose lives you will be directly affecting to take a beat? Is it not your job to apply the requisite amount of due diligence commensurate to the possible impact of your decisions?

It's just so frustrating when the same people that go on about "data driven decisions" will turn around and launch an absolute wrecking ball decision founded on nothing more than vibes, hearsay, and institutional fomo.