Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
by boramalper on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:48AM
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> Distributed File Sharing or computation without the whole tokenomics
They went hand in hand even back in the day: private torrent trackers were all about tokenomics where tokens were the number of bytes you've seeded (uploaded) minus you've downloaded.
I'm not saying it's impossible to imagine distributed file sharing otherwise, but to "guarantee" the availability of (especially unpopular) content, you need some incentive mechanisms either built in to the protocol or externally imposed.
They went hand in hand even back in the day: private torrent trackers were all about tokenomics where tokens were the number of bytes you've seeded (uploaded) minus you've downloaded.
I'm not saying it's impossible to imagine distributed file sharing otherwise, but to "guarantee" the availability of (especially unpopular) content, you need some incentive mechanisms either built in to the protocol or externally imposed.