• Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
  • Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
  • Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.
  • Tachikoma741@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    Now a days we peer review medicine. As I mentioned, in the “wild west”. There’s no peer reviewing. The metaphor of the wild west was also pointing out the infancy of a technology. Another example could be how the “self driving cars” aren’t actually that self driving. However I suspect that over time even those cars will actually become peer reviewed, functional and what not.

    The example that I saw that I liked the best was video games. Just because someone sells bad video games. Doesn’t mean all video games are a scam. Ya, know?