What about the people who sold gold? Didn't they make money?

To be honest, I haven't looked at any statistics but I imagine a tiny few of those looking for gold found any and got rich, the most either didn't find anything, died of illness or exposure or got robbed. I just like the quote as a comparison. Updated the original comment to reflect I haven't checked if it's correct.

You fool, that's exactly what it wants.

I think it's a perfectly cromulent word.

Let me check in a year

There's some difference between blockchain and AI, that is AI works.

Hmm I can send cryptocurrency across the earth in seconds while my self driving car is perpetually 5 years away…

That's true but it's also what Bitcoin did 13 years ago, meanwhile all the hype about taking over the world doesn't seem to be coming true.

That certainly depends on whether you are on the paying or the receiving end of the blockchain scam. For one of them it works really well ...

Blockchain works very well for money laundering too!

A sufficiently smart and malicious AI could wipe out most of our knowledge, now that everything is stored on electronic devices.

Even as a kid I thought Austin Powers or Adam Sandler were trash. "Don't Look Up" is funnier than most of his hits from the past.

>These were normally brown like tree bark but evolved to look like sooty brick in a few years.

Because the brown ones got eaten. But that's different from evolving to recognize where a road is, which is maybe possible but probably would take thousands or millions of years.

If there were that many of organized climate protesters they would be heard as well, it always comes down to numbers and potential for violence.