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Crypto = weakening the hold the state has over citizens, allows people to circumvent political and geographical boundaries, trading with anyone anywhere = good, great eventually for humanity as a whole
AI = spam/killing jobs/killing the Internet/concentrating more power in the hands of the few/stronger existential threads to humanity = bad, might turn catastrophic for humanity
I do not own crypto yet and do not use AI, but to my anarchist self, crypto is the only concrete measure we have against a surveillance state. The sad thing is that like the vast populace, most HN readers do not care about privacy and using technology to push against politicians that want to control every aspect of our lives.
Crypto weakening the hold the state over citizens? WTF kind of paint thinners are you smoking?
Who are the main stakeholders in crypto?
- A consolidated pool of few miners (some of whcih are state owned because they are the only ones who own the electricity plants) - Russia, North Korea, China, the mafia? - A consolidated set of finance individuals who have a perverse incentive to take advantage of lax financial regulations - A series of exchanges run by proven scum - the largest owner what being the FBI and the US government? - A series of undemocratically elected scum who openly print fake money from Bermuda (Tether?)
A type of currency where people can lose their savings on a dime, have openly no protections and ridiculous levels of fees whilst simultaneously destroying the planet.
For the people my arse, the people involved should be lychned given how 90% of it just supports slavery, drug trade, war and crime.
It's laughable how you think shills have so much more power to make or break a technology and give it practical real world applications, merely by hyping up a technology, even more than the actual scientists who have dedicated their lives to it, and the companies like NVidia who produce hardware for it, and the companies like OpenAI who produce software for it. You really have a lot of faith in shills.
By your logic, were shills responsible for the success of the Internet too, and not the people and companies who designed TCP/IP, web browsers, ssh, ajax, network routers, wifi, cellular, mobile phones, smartphones, etc?
It's unbelievable how underrated this whole view is especially in a place like HN where I'd expect more liberal people.
Even this property of crypto alone is a single reason to support it, let alone all the other tech that can be built on top of it.
Thanks to you, I've just learned that donating money to people in need is illegal.
"Cargo ship owned by JPMorgan Chase seized by US with 20 tons of cocaine"
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/10/business/jpmorgan-msc-gay...