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Two thousand years from now an article might read: No one is certain why tribes all across planet in the midst of a pandemic and the a looming extinction becam
by almog 5y ago
Two thousand years from now an article might read:
No one is certain why tribes all across planet in the midst of a pandemic and the a looming extinction became so obsessed with computer hardware that seemed to have achieved no practical function other than to perform intensive compute operations.
Some researchers suggest that these instruments had a special cultural significance, and perhaps even a religious function.
- spoonjim 5y agoLOL. Can’t figure it out = religious object, because religion can contain arbitrary nonsense.
- saalweachter 5y agoSome people would find the explanation apt.
- kzrdude 5y agoIt was a desperate time, and people were turning to increasingly futile computation-based superstition to save themselves.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThe criticism is quite old: https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252/ https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/039... It hasn't gotten anywhere; I assume that's mostly because making assumptions tends to let you publish papers, while not making assumptions tends to stop you from publishing papers. There's no incentive in the system for accuracy.
- JohnHaugeland 5y agoNobody is going to be confused what computer parts are for
- pimlottc 5y agoThe parent poster is poking fun at cryptocurrency mining rigs specifically here.
- toomanybeersies 5y agoIt is thought that these tribes worshipped Satoshi Nakamoto, who they believed to be the creator of Bitcoin, and that when the final bitcoin was "mined", a new era would begin. It is unknown if Satoshi Nakamoto was in fact a real person, as there is there are no surviving primary sources or direct evidence of his existence.