Author’s note: this article was originally published in October 2022, before the release of ChatGPT and other RLHF-based large language models that are capable of synthesizing more coherent text. Late last year, at the peak of the non-fungible token (NFT) craze, I purchased about a dozen highest-rated NFT books on Amazon: I did this because I wanted to publish a balanced critique of NFTs; I figure
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