No. I mean you can get all philosophical and say that everything has value only because that’s a human concept, but thats not really something I would answer to.

Fiat has value because it’s enforced. Because we have institutions that enforce it and because all of our lives are intertwined with it. We buy food with it and we are paid with it. It’s everywhere. It doesn’t make it immune to manipulation and fraud and crime, but we can take legal action because law is also intertwined with the same system.

Crypto is , with a couple of exceptions, a really terrible casino.

Yes.

I think it’s an exaggeration of its crime utility. Normal money is king for crime.

I think most people don’t understand cryptocurrencies. On one side it’s all hyperbolic about being your own bank and financial freedom and new tech, on the other side it’s hyperbolic about how there is no underlying value, it’s all going to 0, scams, drugs, terrorism, money laundering,…

But the fact is that crypto does have an underlying value. It’s gambling. Gambling is a huge industry.

Ah, maybe you should watch though. I don’t think the article represents her views.

The article reads like someone wants clicks and they used a famous person to get them.

Did you watch the video?

Sabine is one of the most influential scientists today. You haven’t heard of her? She does amazing work and spreads knowledge, new science discoveries, new theories. I mean she did sell out a little bit in the last two years with the ads, but the videos are still brilliant.

She does criticize academia now and then, but I haven’t heard any critique from her that wasn’t completely justified. She does it for the field is theoretical physics, the field she knows.

The article is a hit piece and if you read it again you can easily recognize fallacies, like describing what other people say and putting that in the context of describing her, even though she has nothing to do with them.

Sabine is not perfect and for sure she has a grudge with what happened to her in academia. Maybe it was that personal experience that was maybe not referential to all of academia and she overstates the issues. But there is also another aspect to this. Now that she is famous, a lot of people try to tack on to her success, either with extreme flattery or extreme slander.

Cool, thx!

It is, most are unfortunately. Linux people don’t care about design. Until now I think, things are getting better.

I switched to Manjaro and it’s like nothing has changed for the work I do now.

At work we use windows and I don’t imagine that will ever go away. I don’t know enough about this stuff anyway, but I think there is to much work and risk involved to change.

Wasn’t this obvious? He didn’t need to go “all-in on ai” cause there is hundreds of thousands of people who tried the same thing already and everyone of them could tell him that’s not what ai can do.

I had that thing! It was really cool to watch a football match while camping!

And I gave it to my father when he was in the hospital… Eurocup was at the time.

Come on, nobody is going to eliminate poverty. That’s not on the agenda.

Plus we don’t even have a road how to make robots that could make other robots.

A friend of mine is building something like that. You scan all the documents and you can set reminders, it does summaries and proposes actions and a buck of other really neat stuff It’s ai. I think it’s a good use case. But the ai means it has to call a server with the information, so I can’t get past that.

When I first got internet in 95, it was easy to find stuff like that. I even made a website about making explosives for my computer class. Got a good grade for it and everything. Nobody said anything. Kind of weird if I think of it now. Anyway, making explosives as a hobby is a real bad decision. Most people understand that. The ones that don’t are not smart enough to make them. The ones that are smart enough and still want to make them, would not use chatgpt.

I find it bizarre that people find these obvious cases to prove the tech is worthless. Like saying cars are worthless because they can’t go under water.