@tinker linear algebra is nothing knew and it has plenty of use cases (just not chat-bots or making pictures [or fucking coding])

Idk enough about block chains to comment on it

Of your going to say that growth is cancerous then I guess humans are cancerous; You grow or you die. I personally see the general purpose of humanity being to expand and collect knowledge until we have a better 'purpose'

That being said, of course, we need balance. And you're right about working on optimizing computer systems (but we do that, like alot, that's how you get more computing power).
I'm with you on getting rid of these 'crypto bros' and LLMs that do fuck all. But the idea that we should stop innovating because Ai or we reached a "happy plateau" (whatever the fuck that means) is a really dogshit take.

I mean, we could have just said that when vacuum tubes started getting small or when Reed relays got invented... so on a so fourth.