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Post by eru »

Eisenstein wrote: post #459
eru wrote: post #445

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There are two main use cases for blockchain assets at the moment: - Gambling (or politely called, speculation or even 'investment') - Ransomware payments, but that's a distant second I guess you say that influencers make money off the first? There's a third group making money off blockchain: the people making markets and running the infrastructure.

You forgot money laundering and paying for illegal things.

No, I left them out deliberately.

At some point in the past, you could perhaps buy illicit drugs with bitcoin, but that has largely died out, as far as I can tell. You can't even buy a pizza anymore.

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Post by Dilettante_ »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #407
Geste wrote: post #353

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Bad take about blockchain. Being able to send value across borders without intermediaries is unheard of in human history.

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.

>with blockchain your intermediary is the exchange, the developers of the cryptocurrency, etc.

You are mistaken. The transfer of cryptocurrencies takes place on the blockchain ledger. That's, like, the core "thing".

If you choose to bank with an exchange, that's like you bringing your cash money to a regular bank and depositing it. And the developers are no more intermediaries to your transaction than the Mint is an intermediary to your cash transaction.

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Post by rkomorn »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #180
rchaud wrote: post #160

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Plenty of people open Reels or Tiktok the second they wake up. Mobile means notifications, and of you see one as soon as you turn off the alarm, you're more likely to open the app.

Do I have a problem if HN is the first thing I open?

Yes, we do.

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Post by augment_me »

nenenejej wrote: post #437

What problem does this solve. The silence is better. Reminds me of recommend engines in general. Or ads. Bothering my cognition with stuff I have to ignore.

Some people dont want to spend time and energy engaging in the world and thinking about thinks like where to go, what to do, where to eat, what to eat, etc. Have this app and you can just be steered to have a nice life.

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Post by lvturner »

lethologica wrote: post #370
kenjackson wrote: post #123

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This. I had this long standing dispute that I just never had the energy to look up what needed to be done to resolve it. I just told it to ChatGPT and it generated everything -- including the emails I needed to send and who to send them to. Two weeks later and it was taken care of. I had sat on it for literally 3 months until then. If I could have something that said, "Here are some things that it looks like you're p…

I have ADHD and it almost acts as a body double for me, which I find to be incredibly helpful to get things done.

Same, I created a todo list with a simple MCP and it's been game changing, just being able to talk/discuss with my todo list somehow seems to keep me coming back to it rather than after 3 weeks it just becoming a sterile and abandoned list of random things

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Post by AlecSchueler »

ip26 wrote: post #238
anon-3988 wrote: post #38

LLMs are increasingly part of intimate conversations. That proximity lets them learn how to manipulate minds. We must stop treating humans as uniquely mysterious. An unfettered market for attention and persuasion will encourage people to willingly harm their own mental lives. Think social medias are bad now? Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities. In a decade we may me…

It doesn't have to be that way of course. You could envision an LLM whose "paperclip" is coaching you to become a great "xyz". Record every minute of your day, including your conversations. Feed it to the LLM. It gives feedback on what you did wrong, refuses to be your social outlet, and demands you demonstrate learning in the next day before it rewards with more attention. Basically, a fanatically devoted life coach…

> It doesn't have to be that way of course.

It sorta does, in our society. In theory yes, it could be whatever we want to make of it, but the reality is it will predominantly become whatever is most profitable regardless of the social effects.

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Post by dns_snek »

neya wrote: post #448
jasonsb wrote: post #66

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> 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…

> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. HN crowd is generally anti-AI, so you're not going to get a lot of positive feedback here. As a developer and someone who runs my own company, AI helps save me tons of hours - especially with research tasks, code audits - just to see if I've missed something, rapid frontend interface development and so much more if we go beyond the realm of just co…

> HN crowd is generally anti-AI, so you're not going to get a lot of positive feedback here.

Is this a joke? The front page of HN is 99% AI-positive. Things have calmed down a bit but there was a time when it felt like every other article on the front page was promoting AI.

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Post by neumann »

neya wrote: post #448
jasonsb wrote: post #66

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> 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…

> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. HN crowd is generally anti-AI, so you're not going to get a lot of positive feedback here. As a developer and someone who runs my own company, AI helps save me tons of hours - especially with research tasks, code audits - just to see if I've missed something, rapid frontend interface development and so much more if we go beyond the realm of just co…

Rather than anti-AI, I think most of the HN crowd are educated enough about underlying technology and it's capabilities to see the snake oil being pushed. Most of us would have given it a good go (and probably still use it daily), just know the difference between its actual limitations and the dreams that are being sold.

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Post by neumann »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #406
jasonsb wrote: post #66

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> 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…

> The real problem isn’t AI itself; it’s the overblown promise that it would magically turn anyone into a programmer, architect, or lawyer without effort, expertise or even active engagement. That promise is pretty much dead at this point. If that's dead, as you say, it would mean billions in value destruction for every tech stock. They have already promised so far beyond that.

Yes, they are going to blow a lot of money on blowing hot air into this
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