I don't want to get into the argument here, so won't respond.

You started the dumb argument, and you don't actually have any case to make. If this site didn't have policies protecting even its most asinine users, you would really hear it from me.

Also, if you think that AI will never become sentient, then you're no technologist at all, but an offense to it. The buffoonery you speak of is present most of all in your comments.

There are lots of MLM and pyramid schemes worth billions of dollars. Doesn’t means they aren’t scams.

The stock market is one, although a regulated one.

Crypto projects don't define their price, only their emission schedule. One doesn't buy without an understanding of the schedule. There are laws that are enforced against crypto rugpulls. Fundamentally there is no scam with the large crypto projects.