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The Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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Blockchain Technology and the Desire for Profit

We haven't been seeing, you know, I would say 10, 15 years since the advent of cryptocurrency and we haven't really seen any of these cryptocurrency exchanges. A lot of these applications and services provide uses outside of heavily financialized ones or remittances. But it's revealing that none of those have really come about. You know, similarly with augmented and virtual reality, right? Maybe you could, if you twisted my arm, I could think of a way that it would be used for interesting outside of a second mind for outside of persistent ads that follow you around,.

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