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Incredible work. Building a business on ad revenue creates perverse incentives since the users are not the paying customer.
Ad networks with consumer products bolted on have created some of the most powerful anti-privacy tech in history (Google, Facebook, TikTok, etc.). Giving the average person the option to support a service while protesting the ad network is a major milestone. Hopefully we see wide adoption of this!
Deepmind has made improvements in this area as well [1]. Traditional weather forecasting relied on essentially supercomputers but now we can run better simulations on cheaper hardware in a shorter amount of time.
A lot of these challenges can be overcame by teaching the LLM to use a separate tool [1]. For example, the LLM doesn't need to know how to play chess, but just needs to know how to use a chess engine. It doesn't need to know how to calculate, it just needs to know how to write a python script using Numpy/Scipy.
If you take your example and have the LLM respond with Python code that counts the letters and returns the positions it is more likely to get it correct. At some point the OpenAI team will figure out how to get it to do this behind the scenes. You can actually ask it to analyze a CSV file and it automatically writes Python code to do it, so this is already close to reality.
Eventually we'll see these systems translate prompts into logic arguments and then use tools like Coq [2] to make provably true statements. They can start leaning on compilers and language servers to error correct as they write code. Along the way they can write tests to check their work. The bar these LLMs have to clear is just to produce no more bugs than the average software engineer and that's honestly a fairly low bar.
Read about half and the TL;DR is:
- During times of crisis you want simple, effective infrastructure. We've replaced such infrastructure with "modern" but brittle and complicated infrastructure. The example given is an old telephone that didn't require electricity being replaced by a powered, internet dependent VOIP phone.
- Don't outsource your infrastructure maintenance to someone who lives far away. They might not be reachable during times of crisis.
- Avoid logistical bottlenecks like mechanical bridges that can be disabled and prevent trucks/tanks from crossing during a war.
An interesting article with valid points. It reads like a transcript from a video though which would've been preferable in that case.
We should all be skeptical of these reports especially when they come out during an election year. They also doctored the CPI print to make inflation look better than it is. If they cook the books in one area and are incentivized to do it elsewhere then we have to assume all of the data is potentially corrupted.
How did you come to that conclusion? We've got reusable rockets, probes that have left the solar system, retrieved samples from an asteroid, and had people spend over a year in space already. There are many companies building different models of next-generation space stations and lunar landers.
It's nowhere close to the leap required to get to bitcoin from ancient Rome. Given all the technology we provably have and the tech we're confident will be available in just the next 5 years, what major barriers do you think will prevent us from having permanent settlements off-Earth?
We all hope something like that would fail, but it's not guaranteed. Not to give them any ideas but they produce so much of what the modern world consumes that at some point they can require their trade partners to pay in whatever currency and enforce whatever exchange rate gives them the best deal. If they continue to outcompete everyone else then this becomes a real concern.
By that same logic, space exploration was inevitable before fiat was even born. For someone with a nym based on a prolific physicist you seem to have a distaste for applied physics.
If they wanted to enforce a circular economy they could set up a Fedimint and issue ecash to any government employee (teachers, etc.). The bitcoin would always remain in their system assuming they don't open lightning channels to entities outside of El Salvador. With that system in place they can continue stacking and people within their borders can spend it with very low fees.
This is probably how the market will develop long term anyway. Governments will still want capital controls and the people will want sound money. It's not ideal but it feels likely.
Their central planners have been buying up gold, bitcoin hashrate, and investing in nuclear power so long term there is little risk to their power structure. The average person on the other hand might have problems.
I consider runes spam. However, there might be a valid use case. Could there be value in storing sensitive information you want to selectively reveal to the bitcoin network? You can write encrypted data in transactions but then it's obvious you're sending messages and you (or the message) can become a target.
There's a concept called Steganography [1] people have been using for centuries to share secret messages.
Note that encryption isn't equal to secrecy. If you send an encrypted message it is obvious you have done so, but if you hide that encrypted message in a JPEG then you raise fewer red flags.
For this reason, we should be very careful when discussing how to combat spam.
Humans have been interested in space across all cultures for as far back as we have written history. It's only natural for people to want to explore areas they're interested in and haven't gone to before.
Going from Europe to America made you rich.
If you think this then you need to read a history book. Early settlers to America had very few supplies and entire settlements died of starvation after eating even their clothes. In theory bitcoin shouldn't have made it this far and was stupid to even try, yet here we are with the best money ever created.
Antpool constructs the block template for many other pools like Binance, Poolin, F2Pool, and others. It appears to be separate pools if you don't look closely but in reality Antpool decides what transactions get into about 50% of the blocks.
See this source for more details: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-centralization-risks-matt-corallo/
Indeed and in the long term it's healthier for the industry to find more homes too. There are reasons to be optimistic for sure!
I hope you're right, but I fear it might just mean that BlackRock will enter the mining industry and few others will be allowed to operate. It's the closest a nation can get to being able to censor transactions.
The vast majority of mining equipment comes from a country whose government takes pride in censorship. That country is also expected to bring online significantly more energy production in the coming decade. They can make it difficult to change the pool that equipment mines on and most people can't be bothered to reverse engineer manufacturer firmware. Do you not see a danger in this trend continuing?
Then aside from hoping the pools adopt Stratum V2 what's the solution? Change the algo once every few years and repeat this process? Is there another way?
Maybe you're right, but let's consider what it takes to run a big operation now.
Large data centers housing thousands of a given ASIC. All of them are running at the same time and therefore you have high density of computation in that building. If they had to support 10 models then at any given time 90% of their hardware is idle. It becomes hard to justify having that as a business.
On the other hand an average person could buy a handful of a given ASIC and have it sit idle in their house until it can be used. They can be opportunistic with earning sats.
If you combine 10 ASICs into one then it would be less efficient than an ASIC optimized for a single hash function right? Then those who hash with the optimized hardware will have the advantage. That seems like it would favor plebs.