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What makes a film truly anti-war? (YouTube video, 13 mins)
Scott Alexander: “Crypto is a few hundred interesting projects, plus a long tail of thousands of scams. If you’re a knowledgeable person using crypto for some legitimate reason, you’ll use some well-regarded crypto platform and probably not get scammed. If you live in a developed country with a good banking system, and you have no legitimate use cases, your engagement with cryptocurrency may be entirely through clicking on spam emails that say ‘MAKE 1000% MONTHLY RETURNS WITH MOONCOIN’ and wiring them your life savings. In this case you will definitely get scammed. Depending on which of those two categories people are in, and which of those two categories the media covers, you can end up thinking crypto is 100% scams or 0% scams.”
More people own cryptocurrency in Africa (53 million) than in North America (51 million) or Europe (43 million). (HT: Scott Alexander)
Marques Brownlee asks whether generative AI will replace online content creators. (YouTube video, 15 mins)
