@davidgerard yeah i think the most common pitches for either appeal to different self-identifications and impulses. crypto was/is bag culture, everyone around you is a cash machine, entrepreneurship is the only remaining form of social mobility so best get hustling. the LLM hype that targets programmers hardest is about appealing to "intelligence", productivity/status insecurities, and becoming a manager. most of them were already comfortable so the threat is the removal of that comfort.

@davidgerard what they have in common is their ability to select for people with holes in their social-political consciousness who can be persuaded to dismiss arguments about social externalities.

@jplebreton also ~100% of crypto bros fell for the chatbot

@davidgerard building a grift around a product that will tell you literally anything you want to hear is inevitably going to be way more broadly persuasive than crypto's "get rich doing nothing (actually you have to work a shitty and obviously evil telemarketing job)" pitch. so it's not too surprising that the crypto venn circle is mostly nesting inside the llm circle.