Probably the year in the title 2001

I'm using chatgpt right now to create a Hugo page.

For whatever reason Hugo's docu is weird to get into while chatgpt is shockingly good in telling me what I actually look for

There is actually a lot of work involved in tracking everything for an operation.

If an ai is able to record an operation with 9x% accuracy but you save humans, the insurance might just accept this.

Nonetheless the chance that ai will be able to continually become better and better at it, is very high.

Our society will switch. Instead of rewriting software or updating software we will fine-tune models and add more examples.

Because this is actually sustainable (you can reuse the old data) this will win at the end.

The only thing changing in the future is model architecture and training data will only be added.

That's the right track but you have to go a little further.

You probably need to segment out the feet and then have a model that just looks at the feet. Just throwing out images without feet isn't going to tell the system that it is only supported to look at the feet. And even if you do that, there is also the inconvenient truth that a system that looks at everything else could still beat a "proper" model because there are going to be cases where the view of the feet is not so good and exploiting the bias is going to help.

This weekend I might find the time to mate my image sorter to a CLIP-then-classical-ML classifier and I'll see how good it does. I expect it to do really well on "indoors vs outdoors" but would not expect it to do well on shoes (other than by cheating) unless I put a lot of effort into something better.

The pump'n'dump scheme is still not over.

There is still too much money to pull from fresh people.

It's probably still companies which stole money from early adopters and still reinvest.

There is real criticism about crypto.

The massive CO2 production is real. There is a company in NYC who restarted a gas power plant for crypto...

The same criticisms can be leveraged at the major fiat currencies; the US dollar hegemony is basically built around an assumed easy access to hydrocarbon energy (ref the long-term US partnership with Saudi Arabia), and has apparently dictated the US foreign policy on multiple occasions, fx. Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm to protect Saudi Arabia in 1990 and later liberate Kuwait after Saddam torched the Kuwaiti oil fields.

Putting the worlds biggest military into operation a quarter of a globe away isn't exactly energy or GHG-cheap.

It's not.

Our current fiat system is a highly tuned PoS system with a ton of mechanism in place like you said.

Us military, printing technology, money laundering, international agreements etc.

Bitcoin and crypto is not solving any of those things in real life for real people.

Bitcoin already fails hard at simple but critical tasks like getting your money back when you loose your key.

And as soon as you want to exchange anything in the real world you need the real world PoS system anyway like contracts or a law system.

Illusionary thinking on crypto bros side leading to ignorance regarding the massiv energy and GPU consumption.

People saying things like Bitcoin is inflation save and ignore that Deflation is also a problem.

Or saying people should just use their own wallet but ignoring how many people lost access to their crypto due to this.

Or how it can't be censored but ignoring how countries make laws against it.

Just to tell us that they do crypto basically for the 3th world people who need a stable currency instead of just saying how it is: they like to get rich fast and actually don't care about anything.

Lucky enough Bitcoin is not hard but to complicated for the masses otherwise this virus would have eaten us by now (paperclip )

And lucky again: instead of having to read all the crypto bro shit every day we have ai which actually does things. It's much more interesting than reading the same green washing and other lies left and right

Everything you write here cast the "crypto bros" in the worst light possible, leaving no room for a middle ground. But I am probably being too hopeful, your username considered.

I would not complain if we as a society have test nodes and talk about scenarios and do everything besides using crypto in the current state with real money.

Or in a way we're the money thing is more for overhead or play money without a chance for pump'n'dump/get rich fast and similar shit.

And than introducing it later when things are actually stable and reasonable.

LSD showed me that my logical worldview is breakable with just a little bit of chemistry.

That revelation is real.

Have you read _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales_? That was what made me realise how disconnected sensation can be from reality.

I heard about it but didn't read it.

But I knew about different effects of the brain before just that I thought I'm 'different'.

LSD showed me very fast and very clear that this is not the case

There have been always the same arguments from crypto bros regarding energy and renewability.

It's always a lie one way or the other.

As long as Bitcoin connects the energy market with a totally independent money speculation market, the energy market and the people depending on it will loose.

Energy crystallized into a digital form is the perfect form of money.