Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters
by leonidasv on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:17PM
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You're confusing Semantic Web (also known as Web 3.0) with "web3".
Wikipedia has a disambiguation page in this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0
Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters
by braingenious on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:48PM
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What, specifically, are you talking about?
Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters
by nl on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:02PM
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There was an attempt to make semantic web = web3.0 in around 2009 or so. Eg https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305443181_PROGRESSI... (April 2009)
It didn't really go anywhere.
Web3 now is sort of a thing because one of the main Ethereum client libraries is called Web3: https://github.com/web3/web3.js
Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters
by braingenious on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:11PM
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So, web3 doesn’t rely on crypto so long as you define the term in a way that’s inconsistent with how it’s basically universally used today?
Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters
by nl on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:32AM
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I think you are misinterpretating my comment!
I specifically said 'It didn't really go anywhere" and pointed at the Ethereum (aka crypto) Web3 library!
I was expanding on @DonHopkin's comment "The original Web3 stuff that came less than a year after the Web2 stuff in the early 2000's".
In my view back then it was dumb (Web2.0 was still a new thing) and was just an attempt by the Semantic Web fans to get some hype. It didn't work.
(For better or worse I work at a Web3 company so I'm reasonably aware of how it is used within that community today)
Web3 sounds to me like antiquated nostalgia for something that happened at the turn of the century.