Out of all the people I know, the exact same set of people are in to LLMs now who were previously into: NFTs, then Crypto before that, then Online Poker before that, then Dropshipping and LeadGen before that. The Venn diagram circles overlap exactly.
Right. Scroll back on their X timelines and you see it.
The only thing I can say about LLMs is that we might end up with some broad, stable utility from them, when the dust settles. The only thing crypto is really good for is hiding the source of impermissible donations.
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And they made money on all of these stages, except for online poker.
All that really says is that they didn't get big out of any one of those. If one your "people" had gotten big off of online poker, say, would they be teaching the poor to code, or giving them mosquito nets?
It's a very naive supposition that the terminally greedy and immoral people would stop after getting rich once, rather than trying again and again every time there's an opportunity.