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Just to get the facts right: The "bullshit fractal" Bitcoin is currently at about 50% of it's all time high, and is raising again constantly since beginning of
by still_grokking 4y ago
Just to get the facts right: The "bullshit fractal" Bitcoin is currently at about 50% of it's all time high, and is raising again constantly since beginning of 2023.
OTOH: Whether generative AI has any value beyond mass desinformation and making "creative people" unemployed only the future may show. Also: Given than you need super-computers to do the training it's unlikely it will become a technology that can be used by everyone. (The situation here is imho similar to "open hardware": You may be able to design the hardware but you're not able to actually build it in your basement—like it's the case for open source software, which made kind of a revolution possible. AI will likely remain purely a toy for the few richest companies on this planet, without any access for the masses, beyond being "customers").
Regarding VR (the "metaverse"): This was a dead idea already as Second Life was hyped. VR pops up every 10 - 20 years since the 60's, but never caught on; and likely never will for practical reasons. Even Bitcoin has more real wold applications average people would care about than VR (e.g. you can at least buy "stuff" with Bitcoin, or send and receive money against the will of your government).
- grensley 4y agoToday's supercomputer is tomorrow's phone.
- still_grokking 4y agoIt took more than 25 years form super-computer to phone in the past. At least as long as you could apply Moor's "law"… (Which doesn't work any more for some time). [edit: no pun was intended, just noticed…]
- CRConrad 4y agoNo problem, none noticed either.
- CRConrad 4y ago> Just to get the facts right: The "bullshit fractal" Bitcoin is currently at about 50% of it's all time high, and is raising again constantly since beginning of 2023. Is the economy of Bitlandia on the rise in real terms, or what? Huge export surplus, something like that? If not, then WTF is that to brag about?!? Big unmotivated swings in the exchange rate are a failure in a currency. What you're crowing about is that as a currency, Bitcoin sucks.