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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

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      Jesus you still think AI is comparable to crypto? What year are you in? 2022?

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        Both based on desperately trying to find an application for linear algebra accelerators that can generate VC-scale inflated financial valuations, so, yeah

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        mods, offer him a battle he has no chance of winning

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          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

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            couldn’t ask a bitcoin a question and get answers like you do with prompts! checkmate, atheists

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              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.

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              both waste energy and silicon even if nobody asked