The first Atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. If I was around during that time and at the age I am now, I’m sure I would have been consumed with worry all the way to the extent of making myself ill. I would have talked myself into believing the end of the world was inevitable. I never would have guessed that Nukes wouldn’t have been lobbed at each other. But here we are, 80 years later and Nukes haven’t ended humanity (yet at least).
Unfortunately, a very similar doomerism has overtaken me lately. AI is going to change the world profoundly and I believe we have about 3 years before working a normal job is a rarity. I can’t help feeling there is going to be an abundance of unemployable humans. Excess humans if you will. Given society currently finds meaning and purpose from one’s job, we will need to re-define how traditionally we have found purpose.
I’m searching for my ticket out of becoming the permanent underclass. It’s going to be hard to acquire assets while relying on whatever welfare state has been put in place for the jobless. I’m currently putting as much energy as I can into acquiring assets now. A home is primary, Bitcoin secondary but the 3rd asset I’m keen on accumulating is related to AI. My thinking is that if AI is the root of the problem, owning a slice of that root should be valuable.
I have settled on the Venice ecosystem and the crypto tokens within it. Venice is an Artificial Intelligence platform that I find interesting, particularly because it was funded and co-founded by an outspoken libertarian with a passion for privacy, freedom, decentralisation and fighting back against censorship. I believe Venice will be a safe guard against the coming enshitification of AI where responses from OpenAI and the other larger commercial AI providers will start including Ads, paywalls or restricted content .
Within the Venice ecosystem there’s currently two tokens: VVV and DIEM. I’m working on accumulating both. If private and decentralised AI is a useful resource in the future, I’ll be sorted and if it is not a useful resource, well good, because I guess it means I’m not living in the dystopia I’m worried about. So I win either way.
The Venice ecosystem tokens
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VVV – The Venice Token. Get VVV if you believe in the mission and want exposure to Venice’s ongoing project. Stake VVV to receive yield, or to mint DIEM. I like to think of VVV as:
> “Venice: the Vision and Vibes“. |
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DIEM – The Venice Asset. Get DIEM if you want utility from the Venice infrastructure. DIEM gives you credits to generate video or use the Venice API.
> “DIEM transforms AI from a service you rent into an asset you own. Each DIEM token represents a fixed daily quantity compute capacity that never expires and never changes value“. (source) |
