Blockchain currencies and now ‘AI’ (glorified pattern matchers)… I wonder what the next huge energy/resource sink grift will be? I want to know so I can get in early, make a zillion and dump before everyone realizes how stupid and wasteful it all was.

What pisses me off is that LLMs are such a brute-force ‘solution’ that goes against one of the major goals of Computer Science – to find algorithms that take less time and energy, instead of just throwing more compute cycles at things.

Hell, blockchain at least had a mathematical justification for why it needed such huge compute/power resources (proof of work).

Shouldn’t I at least try the poop knife first?