Before the ai panic and the nft panic was the metaverse panic, and before that was the web3 panic, and I think a lot about how all together they are a decade-long mass-delusion-based marketing campaign for graphics processing units
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See I think we've been confusing the snake oil with the shit made out of it. Crypto, vr, ar and ai are elixers. The snake oil is GPUs, circuits for modeling worlds (multidimensional vectors) instead of minds (memory and logic), which prop up share prices post-Moore's Law and draw insane capex spend
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Not that GPUs don't do anything! I have enjoyed a video game or two. AR would be cool but I'm all set on dystopia rn. Snake oil was real (basically better fish oil) except when it wasn't, or didn't do what the salesman and his shills said. And then the bastards printed up new labels in the next town
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