• quack@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Noone is expecting you to understand crypto, but I hear this about modern technology in general all the time and I just don’t buy it. It’s only brain-melting if you’ve spent your entire life being deeply incurious. There are 80-90 year olds who understand this shit just fine because they bothered to keep up.

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      The problem with cryptocurrencies is that you can explain it, without going to technical details, to a person with the intelligence of an average investment banker. (Which isn’t much. Many animals make more profitable random investments when prompted.)

      Same with generative AI I guess.

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        2 hours ago

        If anyone asks I just say it’s like giving you the serial number on the $5 note instead of the note itself.

        Not a great example but easy to understand.