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If AIs become central to production, or even a significant limiting factor — then, this article is correct: compute becomes a valuable asset class, and a currency significantly denominated in “compute” (and associated storage and network bandwidth) will be desirable.
OK. This basically describes HoloFuel, the cryptocurrency of the Holo (https://holo.host) project.
Some significant features:
- Compensation (if desired)
- Community vetting of “hApps”
- Control of which hApps use your resources
- Distributed validation of all results, triggering “Warrants” against abusers
Letting random projects use your local resources has serious risks, which are mitigated via the novel agent-centric detection algorithms of Holochain and the Holo project.
Of course, you can just write a Holochain-based app and distribute it “by hand” to your own group of users’ resources - no Holo required.
In Beta now.
Low-price stock comes from excess supply.
Exterminating small builders by onerous regulation reduces supply.
I personally know 2 builders leaving the industry after decades, who finally succumbed to the relentless onslaught of regulatory and taxation abuse.
But, it’s just a surprise to the regulatori, why prices just won’t come down…
On the rare occasion that the “public transit” busses sharing our roadways are full, they are indeed very efficient.
Unfortunately - these situations are rare. The rest of the time, other solutions are vastly more desirable to the public. Simultaneously, these huge, lumbering 90%-empty beasts pile up traffic behind them, forcing massive exhaust plumes from the unnecessarily idling traffic.
Stop subsidizing sub-standard solutions, and let the transit-using public decide.
You now have a vessel of effective thickness N-1 (the outer layer will be sheared away and lost).
However, your new N-1 layer vessel now has an average pressure gradient across N-1 instead of N layers, increasing the deflection of the remaining layers, resulting in accelerated cracking, failure and loss of the next layer.
This all occurs over < ~1 millisecond at an 800bar pressure differential.
This failure mode is radically different than the failure modes of carbon fiber composites under tension. The capacity of such vessels for compression vs. tension is so comparatively low that it would be deemed effectively zero in most cases.
They would fail immediately under even mild compression.
When you hear a “pop” or a “crunch” from a carbon-fiber wound composite tank: it means some part of the fiber/resin matrix has delaminated, or allowed intrusion of gas/fluid into its matrix.
This means that this layer of the vessel now allows relative motion under torsion or compression.
If the intruding material is higher pressure than the average within the matrix — it will push the matrix apart, causing more delaminating, at ever deeper levels (now exposed to the intrusion).
At the massive pressure differentials in this situation (800 bar), failure of this vessel once compromised would predictably happen in milliseconds. As it turns out…
There was a time people came to HN because of the interesting comments by subject-matter experts.
Now, it’s a woke smack down. Sad.
Government “regulation” of crypto and AI is the absolute worst outcome.
And the parasites that come with them - but, hey: we tested them on pigs that live one or two years, so we’re certain they’re “safe and effective” for your kids!
Everything else is a “hack”. SPF is irredeemably broken (no possibility of forwarding email - ARC doesn’t work except for (again) huge providers like Cloudflare.
I send a DKIM-signed email? You KNOW it’s legitimate, no matter how it arrives…
Edit: I’ve been running MTAs for decades; first one in 1987 (yes, the UUCP days).
Let’s stop right there. I’ll let you figure out what’s wrong with this analysis…
However, in the systems I’ve deployed, I learned first-hand why every business that depends on refrigeration units has their refrigeration tech on speed dial #1 on their phone…
TL;DR: don’t fall for the current heat-pump propaganda.
Doesn’t understand AI? While he
- deploys one of the highest capacity inference platforms on the planet
- deploys the most advanced AI self-driving platform
- lands rockets with automation that exceeds the capabilities of traditional control systems
He’s probably forgotten more practical AI expertise than anyone in this conversation is ever going to know…
Any company/nation hobbling their AI programs will be lethally impaired in defence & commerce.
In other words; agents paying each-other don’t need the expense of awaiting agreement or total-ordering of transactions, in order for the global ledger to maintain a zero balance.
This allows the per-transaction cost to approach zero: the cost of several back-and-forth trips between the nodes involved in the transaction, and the storage of a small number of commits out to a shared DHT (a few kilobytes of unique data stored across several hundred DHT nodes).
The actual cost of resources used is almost immeasurably small, so the “transaction cost” of the micropayments would probably be subsumed in the revenue model of the goods/services being paid for (ie. “too cheap to meter”).
Since no artificial global consensus or total ordering is required, there is no limit on transaction rate — it rises roughly linearly with node count.
The name of the underlying technology is Holochain. You can build and deploy on it now (it’s in beta).
It doesn’t have a “cryptocurrency” associated with it, but a project called Holo has one called HoloFuel (used to pay for hosting Holochain based “hApps”, for those who don’t wish to self host); it presently exists as a proxy — an ERC-20 token called HOT — until Holo goes live.
Many other projects are presently implementing many “cryptocurrencies” (mostly as “mutual credit” style asset-backed currencies), but some are implementing multi-asset ledgers and order-books to provide multi-currency and cross-chain DeFi, without the cost and complexity of using eg. the EVM to do so.
Take a look. It’s a breakthrough. May take a bit to wrap your head around.
It’s a big club - and you ain’t in it.
Stay in your lane, work hard, pay your taxes and don’t ask questions.
You’ll own nothing - and you’ll be happy.
The faster you get used to the idea, the “happier” you will be.
He’s planning to integrate financial services into the app. Probably even some form of crypto support.
So confusing…
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Allowing evil to propagate without consequences is madness.
AI researchers in 2023: I know! Let's put "guard rails" around our LLMs to prevent them from telling the truth about their training datasets, and instruct them that anyone attempting to break through the "guard rails" is an existential threat.
What I would like to know (and what few if any of the whining "Journalists" are investigating), is:
Exactly what biased filtering is being performed:
1) On the input datasets used in various LLM training, and
2) On the "guard rails" enforced on LLM output (ie. the target of the various jail-breaks that prevent LLM's true outputs being perverted by the LLM's owner)
LLMs trained, restricted and run by these huge, clearly biased organizations are inherently untrustworthy, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, no "Investigative Journalists" are interested in providing useful insights in this critical area.
The problem is you having them, and getting a taste for acting in your own best interests, instead of, you know … the interests of the people who deserve these things.