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by snailmailstare 476 days ago
AI winter means ChatGPT is a figure of our collective imagination or that past performance doesn't predict future returns or the rate of scientific developments?

Maybe you have a real thought on that instead of an arbitrary comparison of numbers that don't really relate.. I.e. Quantum research investment would be at least be a faith number that says something about the number of believers in something. What that has to do with the possibility that it falls apart I don't know.
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desumeku 476 days ago
Yeah, I have a real thought: QC is a scam, and you're buying into it. Not much more than that.

If you want to put this to an empirical test, you should buy $10 worth of quantum computing stock and $10 of bitcoin and see which performs better over the next 10 years.

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snailmailstare 476 days ago
QC might be impossible and some involved may view it as just an income scam, I simply doubt that they all do.. I don't really see a difference in bitcoins price. A large portion of crypto mercenaries are no doubt propping up even the more legitimate coin prices by utility in pig butchering, etc, in getting a mark into the right behaviors..

I don't know if the pricing of the champagne in the "champagne room" should be taken as reflecting market sentiment just because it has been globalized. In some sense any kind of scam that runs long enough is just the regular market, but if it has no legitimate revenue I think it must reach the plateau where it can't fulfill the fad function of investing in it. What is the market for currency as a casino, Forex is only half that illegitimate purpose and it doesn't command much respect.

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desumeku 476 days ago
The cryptocurrency space is going to be much more than a "casino" in the near future. You can already buy tokenized stocks and treasury bills if you're not a resident of the USA. Trump said crypto capital, so expect at least that and a lot more. Why should stock market trading be limited to when the NYSE is open, anyway? Pay attention to what Eric Trump says about WLFI.
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snailmailstare 476 days ago
Without Chelsea Clinton's endorsement, I don't think I could possibly use a 24 hour day trading tool. The US is a flim-flam nation now and you shouldn't buy all the crap they sell each other on TV.
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