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At least with machine learning there is some actual substance underneath the hype.

> cryptocurrency research

We're thinking very hard about if the price of our deep-lolcoin is going to go up enough to buy a new a vacation house....

Can u elaborate on that?

I can't speak for them, but I took it this way: there are certain industries that are simply incentivized to produce more of their own industry.

The criticisms of the financial industry where they are not really creating anything of value other than optimizing more value out of existing money.

Adtech industry where a whole generation of technical researchers spent time figuring out how to optimize clicks.

Cryptoeconomy and blockchain where large amounts of money are created out of perceived value and gargantuan efforts are made to build, not solutions to real-world problems (yes I know there are some), but ways to increase the shared, total value of the technology or individual cryptocurrency.