Hacker News with Generative AI: Speculation

The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it? (garymarcus.substack.com)
Everybody’s talking about a scary and vivid manifesto called AI 2027; even Vice President Vance claims to have read it.
Artificial Intelligence, Future, Technology, Speculation
129 points by NotInOurNames 36 days ago | 222 comments
Bitcoin Without a Fight (loeber.substack.com)
Dial the clock back by thirteen years. It’s the spring of 2012. Bitcoin is trading at five dollars a coin. You ask me “what would the world look like at $100,000 a coin?” When Bitcoin is 20,000 times more valuable? It’s unimaginable. Maybe the financial systems of some small countries have failed, and been taken over completely by Bitcoin. Surely it has become a popular currency.
Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Finance, Speculation, Predictions
13 points by n0rlant1s 110 days ago | 3 comments
Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again (arstechnica.com)
New leaks and cryptic clues point to active development the long-awaited sequel.
Video Games, Speculation, Half-Life
47 points by LorenDB 176 days ago | 18 comments
Saving Nanocap Speculators from Themselves (nyuu.page)
I spent the summer of the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market fascinated by a hive of foolishness and deception: /r/cryptomoonshots (and, to a lesser extent, its analogues on discord and telegram). People’d post a token address (typically Binance Smart Chain (“BSC”), occasionally Ethereum (“Eth”)) along with a pitch or maybe a website and an inducement: “buy right now!”. The (implicit) conceit was “you, the reader, may have ‘missed bitcoin’, and ‘missed dogecoin’, but you can still ‘100x’… by buying my token!”.
Cryptocurrency, Speculation, Investing, Social Media, Decentralized Finance
41 points by apsec112 189 days ago | 15 comments
Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would change? (ycombinator.com)
Internet, Technology, Future, Speculation
43 points by dinobones 308 days ago | 90 comments