Cryptocurrency is an ingenious technique for converting concentrated wealth into widespread shortages, ransomware, and carbon dioxide. Whoever figures out how to run it in reverse will have their statue in every public square
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The good news is that given how many very smart people buy into crypto, it may offer a solution to the evil AI problem. Simply tell the AI about cryptocurrency and it will spend all its time talking about crypto on Clubhouse instead of making everyone into paperclips.
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Yeah, exactly. Any sufficiently intelligent entity will just blog about hyperlisp on the blockchain
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understanding math and 'computers' does help - bear markets shake the newbies out
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I know you love a good Peter Thiel quote, so: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got [insert BS du jour]."



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All the climate change of flying cars, with none of the tricky flying part.
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What resource will crypto suck up next?
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I remember when the self described best and brightest were busy making you click on ads. I'd imagine ad-tech is a good source of people who believe their work to be amoral. That the bad stuff comes from people abusing the tech and not it working exactly as it was designed to.
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I suspect a superintelligence might rope humans into providing its computing hardware needs by inventing some kind of supercoin that combines all three of compute, memory and storage, with the mining being some kind of distributed global AI computation.
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Oh fuck, it's the Matrix again
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I'm just waiting for RokoCoins, the sooner you buy in the better your odds of not being reanimated and tortured eternally by The Great AI.
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RokoCo - the Proof of Endless Suffering protocol
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