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These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.
by olalonde 3mo ago
These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.
- meindnoch 3mo agoAnd they will be proven wrong, like with crypto... oh wait.
- 1970-01-01 3mo agoCrypto failed and pivoted. One still cannot pay bills, taxes, buy medicine, transportation, etc. directly with crypto. It is fair to assume the same story will happen to AI.
- jorisw 3mo agoPivoted where?
- isoprophlex 3mo agoBuying drugs, using prediction markets, sending Palestinians money without The Man finding out.
- jorisw 3mo agoSo it pivoted from sending money to sending money...?
- 1970-01-01 3mo agoAgain, it isn't money if it isn't generally accepted. Crypto was forced to pivot into an exotic investment thing that works great if you already have "regular money" to convert and spend. It is not money.
- olalonde 3mo agoNo money is generally accepted. USD would come closest but it's still far from true (probably fewer than 10% of merchants globally).
- isoprophlex 3mo agoI'll bite: it pivoted from replacing fiat currency to doing mildly-to-wildly illegal shit
- Miner49er 3mo agoIt's not fair at all, actually. They are two very different things.
- cryo32 3mo agoCrypto, block chain, LLMs. All wealth concentrator scams with low to no economic feasibility. What do you expect? Everyone to delude themselves?
- datakan 3mo agoI don't disagree but one difference I see is Enterprises pushing hard to use AI where none of them really bothered with Crypto. I see momentum with AI that I haven't seen since the push to Cloud infrastructure 15 or so years ago.
- TeMPOraL 3mo agoThat's because it actually works, so the dismissals are doubly silly in that they fly in the face of trivially observable reality.
- LastTrain 3mo agoCrypto didn’t deserve much effort.
- watwut 3mo agoLow-effort dismissals that crypto threads turned out to be correct. Is that what you meant to imply?
- olalonde 3mo agoNo, I didn't mean anything beyond what I wrote.