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AI is nothing like cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies didn't solve any problems. We already use digital currencies and they're very convenient.
AI has solved many problems we couldn't solve before and it's still new. I don't doubt that AI will change the world. I believe 20 years from now, our society will be as dependent on AI as it is on the internet.
I have personally used it to automate some Excel stuff I do at work. I just described my sheet and what I wanted done and it gave me a block of code that did it. I had spent time previously looking stuff up on forums with no luck. My issue was too specific to my work that nobody seemed to have run into it before. One query to ChatGTP solved my issue perfectly in seconds, and that's just a new online tool in its infancy.
For me personally cryptocurrencies solve the problem of Russian money not being accepted anywhere because of one old megalomaniacal moron
Well XMR solved one problem, but yeah the rest are just gambling with extra steps
What problem is that? Genuinely asking.
Traceability.
Regular financial transfers, be they credit card, direct debit, straight-up written cheques, Interac/E-transfer (I am Canadian, that's an us thing) are all inherently tracable.
XMR/Monero is not tracable, it's specifically designed not to be, unlike Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies.
Of course, shitheads consider that to be a problem, but fuck them, they're shitheads; it's a solution, to the problem they cause.
For context, I say all this as someone who is vehemently opposed to prohibition; as far as I'm concerned every person who works for the DEA should be imprisoned or shot
Thanks for the info. That's quite the way to end a comment though.
I mean it though.
The people working for the DEA now are no better than the people working to enforce alcohol prohibition in 1919. It'd be nice if humanity would learn, with a hundred years to think about it, but the ruling class at least haven't. They enforce poorly thought out puritanical laws, and the world would be better off without them.
If I lived in America rather than Canada, which thank god I don't, the DEA would happily kick down my door, shoot me, and then probably also shoot my wife, who doesn't even partake of anything beyond alcohol, but would obviously be upset about my being shot.
All cops are bastards, and should be torched with molotovs at any available opportunity. If they didn't want to be bastards, they shouldn't have signed up as cops; it's not like they're conscripts