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I feel HN has regarded blockchain and smart contracts with total derision as a solution in search of a problem. And yet with AI, it can actually harm the world
by EGreg 4y ago
I feel HN has regarded blockchain and smart contracts with total derision as a solution in search of a problem. And yet with AI, it can actually harm the world but since it does impressive things, these questions are barely asked.
Progressives have started to talk about how “tech bros” think technology can improve everything but it also creates massive problems they IGNORE.
- BobbyJo 4y agoBlockchain has harmed the world. Ransomware, numerous scams, greenhouse gases... Before all of those harms, very few people had much to say about Blockchain outside of utopian visions. AI has yet to cause harm. If/when it does, I'm sure the conversation will, likewise, turn sour.
- EGreg 4y agoIt will be too late. These bots can be easily proliferated and attack in swarms, to infiltrate any forum shout down any group they don’t like, sow dissent, astroturf revolutions. People keep investigating how one bot will fare among a poker table of 8 players. No one seems to consider that these bots can very cheaply SURROUND all the humans 99999 to 1.
- BobbyJo 4y agoIt is the nature of technology that we rarely grasp how it will change things beforehand.
- pbronez 4y agoBut how novel is that really? Spam is already an issue. You solve it at the account level, not the message level. Trust graph forever.
- EGreg 4y agoSpam doesn’t solve the Turing test interactively and fool millions of your fellow users at scale.