imo cryptocurrency is still not a "big thing" in that normal people aren't buying stuff with them as originally envisioned. It's certainly made a lot of people

imo cryptocurrency is still not a "big thing" in that normal people aren't buying stuff with them as originally envisioned. It's certainly made a lot of people wealthy though. in terms of low-hanging fruit with outsized returns: there's a ton of applications in machine learning. Google and Facebook are pouring billions into these ML models and they're all uploaded to github for us to use, free of charge. All you need is a bit of domain knowledge in how to apply it. in terms of tech I'm actually looking forward to: the new space race, quantum simulation of biochemical reactions, GPT-X with multitask learning for video, audio and text. in terms of impact on the world: things like height and IQ are highly heritable and almost solely determined by your DNA. It was never possible to predict these things, but with linear transformers it's looking kind of possible if you have enough data. I'm morbidly curious at what would happen if a government with utilitarian views on human rights started practicing Eugenics via this kind of phenotype prediction...