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Contrary to the general consensus that artificial intelligence is terrifying and dystopian, the truth is that it’s actually something we should be excited about.
That’s according to a bloke that spent the best part of 2021 explaining to anyone who would listen that everything they know about economics was now irrelevant because cartoons of apes wearing funny costumes were going to replace currency as medium of exchange and real estate as the most valuable asset that a person could accrue.
Leon Husk (39), has always been an early adapter. In fact, he’d be a multimillionaire right now if he didn’t spend use up all of his bitcoins buying a bag of 5 ecstasy tablets from the Netherlands in 2015.
Without specifying an official figure, he also claims to have ‘made a bundle’ on NFTs.
Which, in case you forgot, was a short-lived class of investment that became popular with blokes like this when everyone was fucked in the head from the pandemic.
Leon convinced countless friends and family members to download ‘digital wallets’ and tip money into the purchase of non-fungible tokens, which were actually just digital artworks, that ended up being about as valuable as 1990s NBL player cards.
A lot of things caused the NFT crash, says Leon but he points the finger mostly at the government for ‘over-regulation’ – which is a weird theory given the fact that not Western government even bothered paying any attention to this trend, because they were a little bit busy with vaccine roll-outs and the economic fall-out that followed nearly 12 months of very limited foreign trade.
To this day, Leon still can’t really explain what an NFT is, or was, but he still stands by the fact that he cashed out at the right time.
And now, he’s speaking with authority on how Artificial Intelligence will save humanity.
“Bro. Everyone needs to get around it” says Leon.
“Forget all the data storage stuff. Forget all the environmental stuff. All of that can be overcome”
“What you don’t want to do is miss out. This is the future”
