Author: zoroo.eth
The future created by AI may be cyberpunk or a brave new world< /p>
Since last year, the AI wave has swept the technology industry. The consensus among technology industry practitioners is that AI will profoundly change the future. However, the jury is still out on what kind of future the AI revolution will shape.
Judging from the current situation of the AI industry, its value distribution is extremely centralized. The vast majority of the value is taken away by the infrastructure layer. Nvidia's market value has reached 2.3 trillion US dollars, and GPT's leading advantage is not something that ordinary startups can catch up with. There have been rumors that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to raise US$7 trillion to develop and manufacture AI chips. Such a financing amount is unimaginable under normal circumstances. Seeing the big from the small, the AI industry in the future may really give birth to giant companies that have never appeared in history, take away most of the value of the AI industry, and exert a huge impact on the entire world with the help of AI.
The future described by cyberpunk seems to be getting closer.
The same is true for AI from a political and social perspective. Everything built by AI is extremely conducive to top-down supervision and will greatly improve governance efficiency; everything built by AI, combined with the metaverse, is also extremely conducive to building a world that the vast majority of people are addicted to, and even It is possible to resolve some social contradictions that have never been resolved in history.
A brave new world also seems to be coming.
The future is here, and the speed of the future is actually beyond most people’s imagination. The AI industry is developing rapidly, and the Metaverse industry is experiencing a renaissance. Taking ten years as a dimension, we will all soon witness the arrival of a new world.
Such a future world cannot be said to be bad, but society as a whole will lose its vitality. The development of productive forces and the centralization of value will give everyone a chance to survive, but freedom and power will be enjoyed by a very small number of people. Under a strict and regular centralized system, the position of the vast majority of free individuals will no longer exist. The handful of people at the top of the system will not have to care about the majority, nor will they have to oppress the majority. They will only need to care about their own eternal battle with nature.
Under such a social system, the human social values that have been shaped over thousands of years may be completely shattered, and a new social value system will be reborn. What we value may no longer matter.
Under the Iron Curtain in the future, where will free individuals come from?
If we are not satisfied with this future, what are the variables that can change this future?
Centralized systems are extremely powerful, but they are not invulnerable. Many systems appear to be powerful, but as long as the balance of power flips over the equilibrium point, the powerful system may collapse in an instant. Because most forces will only help what can lead them to victory, "whoever wins, they help."
The centralized system supported by AI is almost invincible because it lacks many "human" factors, but as long as the singularity of the so-called "super artificial intelligence" remains What has not come yet can still be defeated. Strong free individuals coupled with effective free individual organizational forms are powerful weapons against such a system.
But the problem is that there are only born powerful and rich people, but there are no born strong people; there are only cultivated scholars and warriors, but there are no cultivated heroes. . Without experiencing the ups and downs of various social hardships, it would be impossible for a strong free individual to be born. But in the current and future society, where should we experience this kind of suffering?
Young people lack this kind of experience in the real society. In the last 10-20 years window before the door of the new world closes, the normal growth rate is far from enough. This generation of young people to produce truly powerful free individuals needs a real accelerator to accelerate growth beyond capacity. The only opportunity now is Crypto.
Crypto is a cruel arena, and the young people who win will quickly overcome the three major pitfalls of life
"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger." This sentence has two meanings: experience the hardships that can’t kill you as soon as possible; stay away from the things that can kill you.
Pornography and gambling are in line with human nature, but if you can't break away, this experience will lose its meaning in making people stronger. The three more realistic pitfalls in life that really need to be overcome and that almost everyone has to face are actually entrepreneurship, investment, and sex.
"Crypto founders per capita, Lianchuang", "Crypto entrepreneurship cannot be called entrepreneurship, it can only be called a project." This was originally a sarcasm, but if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it. The extremely low threshold for entrepreneurship and the extremely short entrepreneurial cycle allow young people to quickly start entrepreneurship and experience the difficulties of starting a business. Those who learn from it can gain the ability to support themselves anywhere; those who learn from it can give up their unrealistic fantasies about starting a business and avoid detours. Milk tea shops, coffee shops, and bars are as difficult as starting a product business. If you understand this at the age of 20, it will be much cheaper than if you understand it at the age of 40, because at the age of 20, you have countless opportunities to start all over again.
"Crypto has no users, only investors." In fact, it’s quite good. If you want to enter this industry, you need to invest. Crypto is a 24/7 global market with extremely high volatility, which extremely tests people’s psyche. Most newcomers lose money when they join, but as long as they stay, they will become old people and have hope of overcoming the investment hurdle. A 20-year-old understands the complexity of investment better than a 40-year-old, and the cost is much lower, because a 20-year-old doesn’t have many assets, can’t use much off-market leverage, and still has countless opportunities if he loses.
Opening a contract is a shortcut. But for most people, it is not a shortcut to making money, but a shortcut to losing money. But it is also a shortcut to cross the investment hurdle and get closer to the essence. What I always tell my friends is not to sign a contract, but if they insist on doing it, I respect their fate, because a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. I have several friends who lost millions and tens of millions by signing contracts a few years ago. Now they are successful in the industry because they have come out of the pain of contract failure. The failure of the contract helped them quickly accumulate profits. Experience and lessons have also quickly improved our understanding of the industry and honed our investment emotional intelligence.
This is of course survivor bias, but Crypto at this stage is survivor bias.
The next two Twitter comments I saw are both jokes. "Crypto men are generally impotent", "Crypto men are very sick, but they also have a different kind of charm." Although it is a joke, it is close to the truth. It’s hard for anyone immersed in this industry, regardless of gender, to shake off a sense of numbness. To put it bluntly, if the stimulation is too great, many things will lose their original appeal.
The Crypto industry is a vanity fair. Money and wealth seem to be within reach, too close to the bubble and too far away from the value. In such a vanity fair, all the chaos in the financial and Internet industries are worse than Crypto. But thinking about it on the other hand, there is nothing wrong with it. The sooner you raise the threshold, the sooner you become numb, that is, you get closer to the essence earlier.
Entrepreneurship, investment, and sex, almost everyone needs to face these three major hurdles in life. For young people, entering Crypto will give them the opportunity to quickly overcome these hurdles. Although there are many people who fall into the hurdle, many people can climb out again. Although it is not elegant, they can also get over it. Although cruel, free individuals will continue to be born from such tests that exceed personal carrying capacity.
Some things here are counter-intuitive. For example, some big shots said, "Investment should be the last career in life", "It is not a good thing for young people to get rich suddenly" and so on. These remarks are all based on experience and make sense, but in Crypto, the opposite path can also work. Ups and downs bring pain, and pain brings crueler but faster growth.
We might as well call the free individuals who come out of the reverse path "new human beings" because their paths are very different from the paths of past experience. . From a social perspective, this group of people are rich, nameless, and powerless. They are destined to fight for status and influence in the industry. This is a difficult but ultimately victorious path.
What is a community? Believe in the power of a free association of individuals
DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is a beautiful narrative. However, thousands of years of history tell us that only truly free individuals can effectively unite, and groups composed of unfree individuals can only be led. The conditions for the creation of a real DAO are: a group of powerful free individuals + a governance form that is effective but does not infringe on individual freedom. It is impossible for DAO to flourish outside of Crypto because such conditions are almost impossible to occur on a large scale in other industries.
Free individuals alone are not enough. Without governance, the power of the organization cannot be exerted, and it will only be defeated individually. However, the past organizational form, which excessively sacrificed individuality to gather greater power, was not suitable for the new human beings born from Crypto. The organizational governance form of a free association of individuals is a difficulty that Crypto must overcome if it wants to further develop.
Although explorations such as Zuzalu are only prototypes, they still have far-reaching significance. The three main topics in the Zuzalu Montenegro community last year were Crypto, AI, and immortality. This shows what a group of young people who have made huge wealth out of proportion to their age from Crypto really care about. After all, the power of individuals is limited. We must believe in the power of a free association of individuals. This is the key for the industry to go further and further on the road to decentralization in the future and strive for greater industry status and influence.
Crypto will be an undercurrent under a "bright" world in the future
I have no doubt that AI will bring a seemingly bright future to human society. Whether it is cyberpunk or a brave new world, a generation younger than today's young people will eventually adapt and find a way to survive and develop in it, just like V in Cyberpunk 2077. But under the bright light, there are destined to be undercurrents. As a variable in the future world, it will become the core driving force for change and revolution. This is the value of Crypto.
AI's strengthening of the existing social system will eventually evolve into a departure from traditional human social values, because AI's centralization, centralization, systematization, Very inhumane tendencies. The only thing that can balance this power is Crypto's new humans and their union of free individuals.
Free individuals may not have thought that they must inherit any traditional human social values, but they are destined to passively and involuntarily become the mainstay of adhering to traditional human social values. position. As a powerful free variable, Crypto will eventually exert enough influence. Just like if Crypto exists in Cyberpunk 2077, Crypto will definitely become a powerful weapon for Johnny Silverhand to resist Arasaka Corporation.
Crypto young people must have the courage to rebel against empiricism and walk into the new world alone
Without courage, you will be led by others; without strength, you will be suppressed by others; without knowledge, you will be deceived by others. It is better to believe in yourself than to believe in others. Don’t find a father for yourself, but a son for yourself.
Successfully grasping new opportunities requires the inheritance of past experience and the denial of past experience. Experience always makes sense, but reality often does not make sense. This is why young people are often the instigators, pioneers, and helmsmen of great changes in various fields in history.
Learn from your predecessors and respect them from the bottom of your heart, but don’t believe their words. Go your own way, suffer your own hardships, bet on your own life, and build your own career.
Don’t be afraid of being alone. This road is destined to be lonely, but there will be many people walking with you along the way.
This kind of rebellion against past experience is actually the inheritance of traditional human social values; the AI industry’s strengthening of past systems is actually an inheritance of traditional human values. Deviation from social values. From the practical path of industry development, Crypto will continue to intersect with the AI industry; but from the value path of social development, Crypto will eventually part ways with the AI industry.
The important thing is that in the brave new world of AI in the future, only by using Crypto as a weapon can young people have a place and traditional human social values. Therefore it continues to exist.
Conclusion: What is Crypto?
When I first entered the industry, I heard everyone talking about "decentralization";
After working in the industry for a while, I think I realized, "The essence of Crypto is revolution";
Later, a big boss told me, "Crypto The key is sustainability";
Later, another big boss told me, "The key characteristic of the Crypto industry is cyclicality";
After one and a half years since I started my business, I have seen so many weird things that I can’t help but think that Crypto is a capital market or Ponzi, just like other parts of society outside Crypto, except that Crypto is more naked.
So, what is Crypto?
Thinking about it now, these answers are all correct, but they are all one-sided.
How about summarizing it like this:
Crypto is a sustainable cyclical Ponzi that will eventually evolve For the decentralized revolution. This revolution is destined to be completed only by young new humans who are strong, free but know how to unite, just like all great changes in all fields of society in history. And these rebellious young people will passively carry the traditional human social values and become the only solution to fight against the new AI world in the future.
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