3rdrodeo's comments

The crypto group had a lot of time and even more money to make a compelling product that took off and so far they've failed. We've watched fraud after fraud as they've shown themselves to just be ignorant and arrogant ideologues who don't understand how the "modern" finance system came to be, what the average user wants out of financial or social products, or just outright scammers. We can keep sinking money into a bottomless pit or we can move on and learn from their mistakes.

I didn't say to dismiss any concerns out of hand, but the whole idea of "x-risk" or "human extinction" from ai is laughable and isn't taken seriously by most people. Again if you think critically about the whole idea of "human extinction" from any of the technology being talked about you should see it as nonsense.

" many of its top proponents have come out and publicly said." You don't have to uncritically accept that, it's far more likely that they're just self aggrandizing in a "wow I'm so smart my inventions can destroy the world, better give me more money and write articles about me to make sure that doesn't happen".

`I actually don't think there is. Twitter always had a relatively low number of users compared to other networks. The key (and what Zuckerberg covets) is the cachet of it being where journalists and celebrities break news. ` It's that and a very special kind of controlled chaos that's incredibly addicting.