Joke: an evil ASI's first act would be stealing crypto to pay its cloud bills
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-10-31
Cryptographer Matthew Green argued crypto acts as society's technical heat shield — a pile of money attackers burn before going after what we care about. Nic Carter riffed on this: when an evil misaligned ASI shows up, its first move will be stealing crypto to fund its cloud bills, exactly as Gwern predicted, making crypto the canary in the coal mine giving us 30 minutes' warning before the AI turns us into goo.
A fun AI-safety-meets-crypto meme that also underscores a real concern: advanced AI's compute costs may be astronomically expensive.
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