These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.

1970-01-01 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Crypto failed and pivoted. One still cannot pay bills, taxes, buy medicine, transportation, etc. directly with crypto. It is fair to assume the same story will happen to AI.

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Miner49er 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not fair at all, actually. They are two very different things.

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jorisw 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pivoted where?

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isoprophlex 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Buying drugs, using prediction markets, sending Palestinians money without The Man finding out.

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jorisw 6 hours ago | parent [-]

So it pivoted from sending money to sending money...?

	▲	1970-01-01 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Again, it isn't money if it isn't generally accepted. Crypto was forced to pivot into an exotic investment thing that works great if you already have "regular money" to convert and spend. It is not money.
	▲	isoprophlex 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'll bite: it pivoted from replacing fiat currency to doing mildly-to-wildly illegal shit

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datakan 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't disagree but one difference I see is Enterprises pushing hard to use AI where none of them really bothered with Crypto. I see momentum with AI that I haven't seen since the push to Cloud infrastructure 15 or so years ago.

	▲	TeMPOraL 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's because it actually works, so the dismissals are doubly silly in that they fly in the face of trivially observable reality.

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LastTrain 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Crypto didn’t deserve much effort.

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watwut 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Low-effort dismissals that crypto threads turned out to be correct. Is that what you meant to imply?

	▲	olalonde 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, I didn't mean anything beyond what I wrote.

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meindnoch 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And they will be proven wrong, like with crypto... oh wait.

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cryo32 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Crypto, block chain, LLMs. All wealth concentrator scams with low to no economic feasibility. What do you expect? Everyone to delude themselves?