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Re:Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remot... by zepto on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:58AM (#26437872)
Not really.

Life transforms matter and energy into increasing structure and complexity.

A classic pathological life-like process is the paperclip maximizer.

The paperclip maximizer transforms matter and energy into a regular structure of low complexity.

Crypto is one step worse than the paperclip maximizer. It converts matter and energy into pseudo-random numbers.

The only structure discernible within the randomness is the mechanism that induces organic lifeforms to work on behalf of crypto.

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Re:Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remot... by marci on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:20PM (#26438956)
Now let's clippyfy the universe:

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index.html

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Re:Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remot... by bordercases on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:34PM (#26438342)
Hear hear, can I get an amen for Komolgorov?

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C... https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C...

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