alt Hacker NewsCrypto isn't bad because it failed to make early adopters rich — it did make them rich. It's bad because it has horrible externalities in scams, war crimes / sanctions evasion, organised crime — which most of those early adopters were well aware of.
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emoII • today at 2:08 PM
I think you can actually replace crypto with LLMs/Diffusion models in this sentence and it will still hold true
gonzalohm • today at 2:02 PM
All those apply to AI too, no?
xondono • today at 2:11 PM
The way early adopters got rich was by scamming others, so not sure I see your differentiation there
You can make pretty much the same arguments for LLMs. Pollution, corruption, and war are all things I'm keen to avoid.