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Unfortunately, the same Crypto grifters have fully transitioned into AI thought leaders. We're going to have the same get-rich-quick schemes except this time it
by smith7018 3y ago
Unfortunately, the same Crypto grifters have fully transitioned into AI thought leaders. We're going to have the same get-rich-quick schemes except this time it'll be VC money going to an extremely novel idea built on top of an OpenAI API instead of virtual real estate or hideous JPEGs of apes.
- spacemadness 3y agoWalking by crypto meetups attended by people that mostly looked like buttoned up bankers sure was… something.
- ethanbond 3y agoLet’s not try to write off all the ridiculous crypto bullshit as “buttoned up bankers.” There was (and is) plenty of bona fide Silicon Valley nerds in on the cult/con.
- spacemadness 3y agoThat’s not what I said or meant. At the end of it all the meetups went from nerd to mostly clueless “investors” and apparently we were all suppose to believe the tech utopia narrative that late into the game.