Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices?
by abraxas on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:32AM
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Crypto currency is an instantiation of Bostrom's paperclip maximizer running on a hybrid human/machine topology.
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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices?
by squarefoot on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:47AM
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Yes, very likely, although there's no AI involved and are the humans who are digging their own grave. I can easily picture a future in which 50% of the space available on the planet is allocated for energy production plants, the other 50% for mining farms, and there will be essentially only jobs related to these two activities available, just like using every resource to make paperclips.
We started something that could make a nice Twilight Zone plot, and that's what worries me the most.