this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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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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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