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Re:Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy by inimino on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:31AM (#13174608)
People chasing long shots under a delusion can sometimes be profitable for someone else, but if a movement is built on irrational exuberance surely there's a cost to be paid sooner or later.
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Re:Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy by EthanHeilman on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:27PM (#13178904)
>if a movement is built on irrational exuberance surely there's a cost to be paid sooner or later.

I worry about a Blockchain winter, then again AI has made fantastic progress despite the AI winters[0].

Would fusion as a power generating technology be further along or further behind if it had followed the AI model (progress -> hype -> winter -> progress)?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

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