zifpanachr23 said:
> AI people sound more dug in to be honest from my perspective. But I guess that's cause the crypto stuff tends to be less overtly religious and more overtly batshit crazy politics and economics, which I'm much more used to dealing with haha. And mostly, everyone has figured out the scam by now on the crypto side.
>>The AI people freak me out cause they are all talking eschatology and shit as if they have stumbled upon the literal ark of the covenant like in raiders of the lost ark or something.
>>>It's a really great act to be honest. They've been clearly studying a lot of the more dishonest American religious culture of the last couple of decades.
I'm going to commit a HN faux pas to prove a point and show you why I think Bitcoin has a valid use case here alone: I decided to repost what he said because there are valid points here and are worth discussing.
Had I the inclination I can hash this into the blockchain for all to see what was written from this poster for the aforementioned reasons for as long as the mainchain continues to be maintained, protected and supported .
This has great utility, and the mere suggestion that you cannot get over that is because those 'crazies offend me and my disposition' and stop there you fail to see why and what this technology can already do--create an actual immutable archive of all Human history if we desire it.
But to his point, yes it's roots in Crypto-Anarchism (which started in CA at the inception of the rise of modern SV btw) has many of you questioning the ''sanity' and 'motives' behind this technology, and you assume they are all the same but rest assure their is a reason for the brain drain from all of tech/STEM/finance during my era and time in Bitcoin.
Most of whom are now incredibly wealthier than they ever were working in academia or private industry if you think money is a measure of one's success--I don't, but most of you do.
The AI people strike me more as a range of the introduction corpos from banking and academia into bitcoin (Gavin's, Hearn) to total con men like Veer and sprinkled in there are the cult memebers you mentioned who honestly think that their techno-utopian trans-humanist dreams are being built one LLM update at a time. It's sad... it's the same thing just different names/faces.
No one cares that blockchains are immutable, that doesn't mean that information written there is correct. Just that it was written on X date and the content. You could find proof of the biggest scandal of all time and post it on the blockchain so "the man" can't stop the word from getting out but 99.99999999% of readers would read a version presented by a simple web server and with the value cached in a closed database or memory. Which if the government wants to take down, it can. And if that does go down, no one will save a link to the entry on the blockchain. And on the flip side I could write obvious falsehoods in the same way. Blockchain provides no value for legal attestation nor information distribution.
In practice, the vast majority of blockchain ledgers record the history of scams, penny stock style trading and money laundering attempts.
> In practice, the vast majority of blockchain ledgers record the history of scams, penny stock style trading and money laundering attempts.
It doesn't take long before they make themselves present. Thanks for proving my point.