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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 1 year ago

AI doomers are all trying to find the guy building the AI doom machines

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AI doomers are all trying to find the guy building the AI doom machines

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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 1 year ago
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AI doomers have warned of the tech-pocalypse — while doing their best to accelerate it
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Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry
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    AI will kill us by increasing energy consumption when we should be reducing it. But at least scam calls are gonna be much more believable.

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      Because crypto alone wasn’t enough at consuming fuckloads of energy to generate nothing of value

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        Nothing of value…lol have you seen BTC price lately, kid???

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          value is when line go up

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          I was going to say something about use value, but BTC doesn’t have any exchange value either lol

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          Remind what liquidity means and how much BTC could realistically be transformed back into actual fiat currency

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          How is your pivot to AI going?

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          @Dkarma @ICastFist and value is the same as price, is it?

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