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Comment Cowrie shells (Score 0) 51

You might as well use cowrie shells as currency. Just like a carbon credit, they have no intrinsic value and no utility whatsoever. Gold, on the other hand, is used to make a lot of things. Cryptocurrency is even worse than a carbon credit because it relies on energy to be used and stored. If you think about it, cryptocurrency is subject to inflation as long as carbon credits exist. You'd need carbon credits to maintain cryptocurrency's functionality.

Comment Harbingers of doom (Score 1) 36

Here's a little thought experiment: Imagine that everyone has a self-driving car. Now imagine that the system required to run them stops working because the only way to make it work is with massive cloud-computing and AI, none of which is in the car itself. What if it's not a failure but rather intentional?

Comment Missing the point (Score 2) 75

Have they not realized that answers to questions on their site are often outdated and therefore useless? AI saves people a lot of time by at least attempting to come up with an answer that's not wrong because the information is stale. Granted, the answer may still be wrong because the language in question doesn't have the functionality that the AI thinks should be there (and it should).

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