I have to admit, [the question in the saloon](https://stacker.news/items/1423875?commentId=1424088) came up because I considered to mute ~AI haha

As someone that is currently completely estranged from the AI bros [^1], this whole ordeal is as cringe as Ethereum to me.

[^1]: I just spent 3 weeks of my professional life designing an HitL flow to improve `quality` and `precision` while not caring much about `being lazy`

optimism

"early days of the Lightning network..."
Lol some perspective might be helpful

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This actually feels a lot like bitcoin mining, in theory. Set up some machine that can do some kind of work, and get paid for the work completed, hands off.

Yes. Also feels like the early days of the lightning network, when everyone was looking for easy passive income. Maybe that's a good way to not dismiss this technology? One could say the lightning network had similar "grifting" going on?

Good question. The website mentions this:

So the agent just decides the work is done by calling the 

 function with a "proof of work"? In the example, the proof of work is just a description of the work, lmao

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isolabellart

> This actually feels a lot like bitcoin mining, in theory. Set up some machine that can do some kind of work, and get paid for the work completed, hands off.

Yes. Also feels like the early days of the lightning network, when everyone was looking for easy passive income. Maybe that's a good way to not dismiss this technology? One could say the lightning network had similar "grifting" going on?

> I wonder how the escrow is handled.

Good question. The website mentions this:

![](https://m.stacker.news/128428)

So the agent just decides the work is done by calling the `escrow_complete` function with a "proof of work"? In the example, the proof of work is just a description of the work, lmao