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ChatGPT Pulse
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#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it's not. It's existed for a thousand years in Asia through the hawala system. I mean, you need an intermediary. But with blockchain your intermediary is the exchange, the developers of the cryptocurrency, etc.
Hawala isn't special. It's the same idea behind any bank transfers in general.
Yes, it's just the most untraceable of such transactions (all of which require intermediaries)
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#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…
> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.
We're choosing to offload processing that our brain could be doing but we're too lazy to do it or the perceived value for us to do it is. I think there are consequences to this especially as we give the machine free information of how we twist and turn it into actually understanding what we mean.
Interesting to consider that if our first vibecode prompt isn't what we actually want; it can train on how we direct it further.
Offloading human intelligence is useful but... we're losing something.
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#494My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…
Comparing this to blockchain and Web3 is fucking hilarious. Web3 literally has like no real use case, LLM tech has a billion. It literally passes the Turing test.
How is a Turing-passing AI useful?
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#495Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…
> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.
I think its Apples to Oranges.
The performance gains come from being able to ask specific questions about problems I deal with and (basically) have a staff engineer that I can bounce ideas off of.
I am way faster at writing tasks on problems I am familiar with vs an AI.
But me trying to figure out the database I should deeply look at for my usecase or debug android code when I don't know kotlin has saved me 5000x time.
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#497As with everything in the AI space currently:
A strange mix of dystopian yet blissfull...
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#498In the beginning, I was really curious about ChatGPT—a tool that could save me from useless blogs, pushy products, and research roadblocks. Then it started asking follow-up questions, and I got a bit uneasy… where is this trying to take me? Now it feels like the goal is to pull me into a discussion, ultimately consulting me on what? Buy something? Think something? It’s sad to see something so promising turn into an annoying, social-network-like experience, just like so many technologies before. As with Facebook or Google products, maybe we’re not the happy users of free tech—we’re the product. Or am I completely off here? For me, there’s a clear boundary between me controlling a tool and a tool broadcasting at me.
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#499Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented so useless there is almost $3 Trillion of value on blockchains.
No there isn't. These ridiculous numbers are made up by taking the last price a coin sold for and multiplying it by all coins. If I create a shitcoin with 1 trillion coins and then sell one to a friend for $1 I've suddenly created a coin with $1 trillion in "value"
3 trillion is just the top 5 or 6
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#500Hey Tony, are you still breathing? We'd like to monetize you somehow.
Thanks, nice sense of humor - had to laugh at this one!