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AI solves gigantic issues and helps us with cancer, protein folding, potentially math and other studies, material science etc.

Bitcoin consumes as much energy as a country and has basically done nothing besides moving money from one group of people to a random other group of people.

And bitcoin is also motivated to find the cheapest energy independent of any ethical reasoning (taking energy from cheap chinese hydro and disrupting local energy networks) while AI will have energy from the richest companies in the world (ms, google, etc.) which already working on co2 neutral 24/7.

parent k8sagic 2 years ago

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