In case it's useful to anyone, there are several peer-reviewed papers studying the fraud, abuse, and schemes that happen in crypto networks. (we won't have large peer-reviewed studies in nfts in particular for years, but they are similar):
via @pamelaliou
https://t.co/5tu4uZJbs8
Yes and also this one time my mom said "a wife is a man's best teacher" and I told her that's bs and a man should just teach himself and then she got divorced and now she agrees with me :)
yes I'm all for masking a tuba. Two months of saxophone lessons in middle school have equipped me with enough knowledge to understand that these are droplet broadcasters
DALL-E is a huge milestone. It generates believable images from arbitrary text inputs.
Seeing how the quality of generative models improved so fast (from DCGAN in 2015 to StyleGAN2 now) makes me wonder how soon text-to-image will become photorealistic.
What an absolute circus @replyall seems to choose exactly the wrong decision at every turn, culminating in the head-scratching choice to not air the piece because of...hypocrisy? This is like.... a Klein bottle of hypocrisy.
you can use eth blockchain to design any kind of contract/asset class and it seems to me like a colossal waste of human imagination to focus on all the attention on day trading collectible baseball cards.
as far as i know nft solved the problem of digital provenance but not much else. Also the frothy speculation on it seems annoying, but annoyance isn't enough to outrage me anymore. This reminds me of the week in middle school everyone got really into yo-yo tricks.