JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.

WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?

Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?

And therapy? Just… 😑

What’s wrong with people in tech?

@baldur I thought all these use cases were already covered by blockchain?!

😁

@aguleb @baldur Blockchain has covered absolutely *no* use-cases except for “the need for blockchain technology to exist” and “to automate the waste of electricity to a comically absurd degree”.

@enoch_exe_inc by that, do you mean that distributed ledgers are a bogus idea, or that only blockchain is a bad realisation and there are better ones, and if so, could you point me in that direction please?

@aguleb @baldur

@tivasyk @enoch_exe_inc @aguleb @baldur
People are prone to confusing a technology itself from its application in late stage capitalism.
Blockchain is an incredibly useful technology that's been steered toward evil.
@AeonCypher @tivasyk @aguleb @baldur As YouTuber suckerpinch put it, it (blockchain) is an elegant solution to the double-spending problem at a small scale, but is comically absurd when taken to its logical conclusion.

@enoch_exe_inc for every technology there exists a scope of efficiency outside of which it's application is suboptimal at best. not a valid argument in the given context.

@AeonCypher @aguleb @baldur

@tivasyk @AeonCypher @aguleb @baldur The scope of efficiency for blockchain-based cryptocurrency is, unfortunately, painfully limited if only a relatively small number of people can use it and only for a rather limited time before it costs more in electricity and hardware for computation than it’s worth to run a decentralised banking network.