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Re:“AI doomism is becoming indistinguishable from a religion” by FormerBandmate on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:00PM (#35403557)
Bitcoin’s negative impact on the world is 1/10th that of freon. AI risk people’s predictions sound like they’re writing bad Terminator fanfiction.

AI has real dangers completely dissimilar from what people describe. It is very good at creating clickbait, misinformation, and persuasive material the unsuspecting might not immediately see. Phenomenal for scammers and propagandists, the same way as the internet

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Re:“AI doomism is becoming indistinguishable from a religion” by blibble on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:15PM (#35403657)
> Bitcoin’s negative impact on the world is 1/10th that of freon.

the difference is freon did something useful

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Re:“AI doomism is becoming indistinguishable from a religion” by skissane on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:09AM (#35408611)
Some people successfully used bitcoin to store and transfer funds, which was its intended purpose.

And, even though in many ways it fell short of that purpose in practice, the jury is still out on whether its failure is inherent to cryptocurrencies as a technology, or the limitations of being a first-generation implementation of it.

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