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Always upvote Alpha Centauri!
EDIT: and in slightly more content-related answer: I picked those examples because there's a range of reason why these things were stupid. Some turned out to be stupid afterwards, like building highly polluting gasworks in the middle of cities or airships. Some turned were always stupid even in their very principles, like using rockets for airtravel, solarpanel roads or blockchain.
LLMs are definitely in the latter category. Like solar roadways, blockchains or commute-by-rocket, the "solution" just doesn't have problem or a market.
I agree. People are often dumb, especially the smart ones.
When you go through life seeing the world differently it's easy to assume that other people just don't get it, that they're the problem as always, when they say your invention is useless, misguided, inappropriate or harmful.
No matter how smart these people are, reality always catches up in the end, hopefully with as few casualties as possible.