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Sometimes I wonder if people don't realize the extent of how crypto's reputation is absolutely 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 outside crypto circles. Large overlap with the "AI sucks" people. However, that one will fade as AI has obvious use-cases for individuals and groups which don't require network effects to be successful. AI will succeed and the "AI sucks" people will be seen as luddites, path-independently. Crypto however - at least the originally-intended version as democratized peer-to-peer money - can only succeed with network effects going its way. Same goes for a network like Farcaster, where we can see from this thread that crypto's reputation is a large reason why folks aren't being invited here. https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x51d1875b Trust and reputations are difficult to rebuild. I worry it may be too little too late. The scenario I fear most is the one where crypto is relegated to boring settlement backend tech for tradfi, providing none of its promised self-sovereignty benefits to individuals.
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polymutex
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I don't think these anti-tech communities are completely healthy either, and there's an argument that they aren't those we should try to reach out to anyway. I hear that. https://warpcast.com/matthewb/0xfaee7617 At the same time, the continued splintering of the web suggests that if nothing is done, this will get worse over time, not better. https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xd3d79631 It doesn't matter if tribe A is factually incorrect about tribe B if tribe B is shrinking, because tribe A simply has to wait things out while tribe B withers out. Seems to me like the remedy is the same: build real things demonstrating real value to people. This conclusion has already been written about to death, no new insight here. I just wish it wasn't multiples harder than tabula rasa.
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Another force at work here is Big Tech, which is broadly pro-AI and anti-crypto. Even the non-AI Big Tech people play a role. They sit on web standards bodies, payment processor industry committees, internet identity standards, etc https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x596c25a2 https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x7d4be879
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