I'm struggling to understand what point this comment is trying to make. I thought it was referring to Lanier as one of "the quiet ones with few followers," but then it claimed that the "old guard" is falling by the wayside, and Lanier's hardly new.
I wasn't actually referring to Lanier because he's mostly been a lone voice in the woods, even as he's highly influential in some circles. I was actually referring to the noisy self-promoters currently polluting Hacker News with their AI posts, but now that you mention it, maybe Lanier fits that category of insightful people with few followers. How long has he been telling people to delete social media? How long have people been ignoring him? The world is finally coming around and I for one would be glad for him to become as famous as some of the noisy ones.
Funny, I have mentally filed him as a designated person who is consulted by media to offer opinions on tech despite having no particular claim to familiarity with said tech.
