Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters

Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters by nl on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:02PM (#34255792)

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

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Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters by braingenious on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:11PM (#34255847)

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?

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Re:Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters by nl on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:32AM (#34257062)

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)

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