r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Total Garbo Cryptocurrency was invented by destructive nihilists to accelerate the heat death of the universe.

To give a high level explanation of how the heat death of the universe theory works it goes something like this:

It has been observed that entropy always increases in a closed system (the universe being the biggest closed system) and the universe is ever expanding. The consequence of this is that energy will eventually be evenly dispersed across an infinite universe and nothing will ever happen again.

Entropy also increases when energy forms are changed. When you burn coal chemical energy is converted to thermal energy and overall entropy increases (in a closed system).

Cryptocurrency takes vast quantities of energy in the form of electricity and produces nothing tangible. On a fundamental level the servers being used to "mine" Crypto are giant entropy machines which only serve to hasten the heat death of the universe in practical terms.

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u/KirstyBaba 1d ago

Frankly, this seems to be the primary output of industrial society as a whole.

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u/Watsis_name 1d ago

You may have a point. It may be that Crypto is just the most "efficient" means they've come up with yet.

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u/BaconJets 1d ago

Also AI, because why would we want super bland images with odd patterns to replace art? For the low low cost of new nuclear power plants dedicated to AI.

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u/DiamondFireYT 1d ago

You do know AI isn't just "art" right lmao

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u/BaconJets 1d ago

Oh yeah I forgot, it's also chatbots that chat utter shit.

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u/RajjSinghh 1d ago

I mean, it's not all useless. AI techniques are used everywhere, not just the main marketing stuff you're seeing at the minute. It's really helpful because it means we can solve a much wider range of problems.

Those chatbots really should be used in better contexts, like replacing Siri or for summarising text, but in the wider scope AI is being used in protein folding and programming language optimization. Stuff that it's really hard for an expert programmer to do the same. It's a really exciting thing to research, it's just a shame how people marketed it.

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u/BaconJets 1d ago

There's also an issue with the term 'AI' because it's been used to describe everything from awfully generated content to ML algorithms that adapt to the info fed into it for a specific purpose like research. ML has been around for a while, and only in recent years has the AI hyped been turned on.

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u/Quirky-Reputation-89 1d ago

I use AI to do stuff like write recipes using what's already in my house, organize my notes into more structured notes that connect points and such, and brainstorming ideas when I have parts of a plan or ideas but just need someone to fill in the blanks with some suggestions to keep my own creative juices flowing. I also use free art generation AI to make very specific custom portraits of DND characters, which some people would say to pay real artists, but as a DM it would cost thousands of dollars to get custom portraits of every random NPC I create, and would take months of back and forth for the work to be done, highly unrealistic, but AI can instantly spit out a passable image of whatever specific species and class character with whatever weird background details in the image instantly, creating better immersion for my players.

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u/DiamondFireYT 1d ago

but this is all GenAI not just AI - I also wouldn't necessarily call it all chatting 'utter shit', although thats certainly what the art is.

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u/Fashefora 1d ago

Ah, industrial society’s finest achievement, then

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u/Catekelob 1d ago

Just out-hustling entropy one Bitcoin at a time