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It wasn’t really an anti-crypto diatribe. It’s useful to know where authors are coming from when evaluating what they say, and somebody who puts Blockchain in t
by mattmaroon 3y ago
It wasn’t really an anti-crypto diatribe. It’s useful to know where authors are coming from when evaluating what they say, and somebody who puts Blockchain in the same league as mobile phones clearly isn’t thinking clearly. They’re obviously caught up in some echo chamber.
I don’t know, maybe Blockchain and/or crypto will be widely used one day, but it’s been around for quite a while now and so far it’s been nothing other than speculative gambling. It hasn’t really changed life for most people, other than maybe them having won or lost some money on it. It’s not exactly a ubiquitous technology that most people use every day. The internet and mobile phones impact all of our lives daily, even if we somehow opt out of them. NFTs don’t. It’s more akin to the advent of online poker than an iPhone currently, and hardly a once in a decade world changing tech.
And that’s sort of the point with LLMs too, it’s so new we don’t know if it’s going to be mobile devices or Bitcoin yet. I’m inclined to think the former too, but it’ll take time to tell.