> funding a bunch of people who are not long off the crypto grift train if they are at all.
Your last statement: are you implying that the AI-bubble is perhaps an attempt at building out more cryptocurrency mining outfits?
> funding a bunch of people who are not long off the crypto grift train if they are at all.
Your last statement: are you implying that the AI-bubble is perhaps an attempt at building out more cryptocurrency mining outfits?
No I just think it's the same people (because it is the same people). They jump from hype technology to hype technology, and many of them had an enormous incentive to jump from one GPU-investment-heavy technology with a bad reputation for grift to the new shiny-clean-hope-for-the-future thing that might help them make use of their capital investments.
But specifically at least one of these people — Sam Altman —- is not, IMO, off the crypto grift train, because he's still chairman of Worldcoin, which strikes me (and more importantly strikes regulators around the world [0]) as a pretty shoddy operation (not to mention creepy and weird).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)#Legal_and_r...