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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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wait, 2021 was when crypto was still a thing vcs poured money into, so that might be yet another case of crypto to ai pivot
Jesus you still think AI is comparable to crypto? What year are you in 2022?
Both based on desperately trying to find an application for linear algebra accelerators that can generate VC-scale inflated financial valuations, so, yeah
off you fuck
mods, offer him a battle he has no chance of winning
ai is pushed by the same people as crypto, uses the same resources as crypto, captures attention of the same libertarian-brained vcs wanting to build their neofeudal empires, gives result equally as useless, unwanted and aggressively pushed by people that bought into it, not to mention crimes against environment, logic, abuse of workforce or general waste of everyone's time and attention. but nOo iTs CoMpLeTeLy dIfFeReNt tHiS tImE
couldn't ask a bitcoin a question and get answers like you do with prompts! checkmate, atheists
To be fair to bitcoin, it might waste $160 worth of electricity per second, but it does get the right answer once every ten minutes.
both waste energy and silicon even if nobody asked