I just wanted to clarify the confusion that was in my head for a moment after going after the truth and fact checking. If I buy a pizza with Bitcoin and Lightning Network (which is the only one in use at most legal places), it's not like I'm using 1600 kWh... The original message is misleading in that regard.. Practical and concrete reality are different. But theoretical, if that pizza wanted a normal transaction it would use such amount of energy and take days (that's why they wouldn't use that)... So... There's that.
Anyway, the dichotomy 'AI or Crypto' is false. I am not taking sides. But you do you, enjoy.
Continued expansion or ever-increasing profits is a definitive characteristic of the system though. Enshittification is just the latest feature it found, for software-based companies.
One could also argue that enshittification is independent to software, like diluting juice or other "innovations" that products received...
Instances can close registrations if there are too many bots, and somehow it could be okay. Bots aren't impossible to fight, the problem is that capitalist platforms support or ignore the issue since for them is somewhat convenient driving engagement... Or whatever ad-revenue system is behind that.
Not peer reviewed though. Those are called preprints and not papers. Both would be research articles but the difference matters (to scientists at least).
I just wanted to clarify the confusion that was in my head for a moment after going after the truth and fact checking. If I buy a pizza with Bitcoin and Lightning Network (which is the only one in use at most legal places), it's not like I'm using 1600 kWh... The original message is misleading in that regard.. Practical and concrete reality are different. But theoretical, if that pizza wanted a normal transaction it would use such amount of energy and take days (that's why they wouldn't use that)... So... There's that.
Anyway, the dichotomy 'AI or Crypto' is false. I am not taking sides. But you do you, enjoy.