[ozlikethewizard]

Bitcoins resource usage was definitely a key point in the anti-crypto-hype arguments, can see from the Wiki lots of the references are from 2021:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_bitcoi...

Also were not building out compute in any meaningful way, theres only actually been a couple of fundamental advancements to how we understand NN on a fundamental level, whats really changed is theres now a few companies with enough resources to throw an ungodly amount of compute power at a clearly already plateauing line of tech. To the detriment to every other opportunity.

[Yemoshino]

Its not plateuing at all. And the next things are already in the working like world models.

All this compute can also be used for other neural networks like finding new materials or drugs etc.

But what i meant was, that the outcry against AI is so much louder than bitcoin. The argument was brought up for sure but it was ignored plenty. No one forbid a company to restart a gas power plant in NYC to JUST burn it for bitcoin.