I admire your optimism. Meanwhile, we have quite a few millennia of trying and failing in this, so I'd rather try fixing the system instead.
> Meanwhile, imagine if every GPU used for mining right now was being used for training neural nets instead
With what, MNIST? For the billionth time?
ML and the current incarnation of AI don't need more CPUs, they need more data and better algorithms.
Actually, research is showing that brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise [0]. We may be living in the most peaceable times in history. Maybe the optimism is warranted?
[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904106704576583...
If you were a logistics company would you rather-
>Total control of fees and servers
>Directly working with companies to solve their problems
or
>Writing something open ended so other companies can develop their own uses
>Get paid with supporting software
>Big cost increase because of miners
I completely understand Bitcoin and currencies. But I think most blockchain is going to be bad for the environment and not needed. Centralized servers are superior for most uses.
:O, the only possibility for that which comes to my mind is a world in which everybody is infinetly rich?
I worry about russian hackers(spamming) stakes or pulling off attacks.
It took me long enough to believe that BTC wasnt going to break.
It seems like a feature with ~0 benefits. Can you explain?
As a non-utopian, I understand that human beings cannot be "fixed." Thus, we must create systems that cannot be corrupted by humans.
Creating a money outside of state control may be the smartest thing that humanity ever does. We'll need maybe a century to see how it plays out.
That said, most of the blockchain projects out there are scams. If your project can run on a centralized database, then you don't need a blockchain.
Which if successful enough to constitute a counterweight with enough force to push back against "the state" will yield merely... another state, but conveniently one with "Our Guys" in control of all the economic leverage.
You call yourself non utopian, yet Bitcoin - a tool to deleverage the state by sapping its power of taxation - is a nakedly self serving utopian project. And yet tax rent (in the form of landowner's premiums like mining rewards and tx fees, and soon by lightning network channel brokering fees, not to mention off chain but indispensable infrastructural scaffolding like exchange fees and fiat ramps) doesn't just disappear, it merely flows to the pockets of a different cabal composed of early adopters and wealthy latecomers who were able to buy large tracts of influence and infrastructure in bitcoinland.
We need to stop thinking of "human nature" as some inviolable fundamental quality and start thinking of it as the behavior of an animal in an environment.
Technology serves human beings, human beings do not serve technology. Human beings are messy and unreliable. Making them non-messy and reliable would make them not human.
What is human? Is dying from diseases and starving to death human? Is waging war and inflicting massive suffering on each other for little real gain human? Maybe there's some aspects of being human we're willing to give up.
Meanwhile, imagine if every GPU used for mining right now was being used for training neural nets instead. The value in that is nearly unimaginable; we could be making massive leaps in almost every field and industry, because the applications of deep learning to making tasks marginally more efficient are essentially endless.