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Meanwhile the theoretical potential existential risks of advanced AI massively eclipse the capacity of crypto for catastrophic harm. The _good_ ending is if we merely waste a bunch of energy on slop machines to put millions of people out of work for the technofeudal overlords; an actual AGI breakthrough capable of exponential intelligence growth could go horribly wrong in ways already innumerably theorized and illustrated in science fiction and the mad scientists of silicon valley are enchanted by the siren's call, taking the warnings as instructions.

Economic chaos is one thing, Skynet is another. And then people with the power are stupid and evil. Joy.