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Re:Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT? by bobkazamakis on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:29PM (#34358201)
> have them do computations that I already know the answer to.

By definition, this is not having them do any computation. The proper solution at this time would be some trapdoor function that is easily verifiable (proof of work), at least while P != NP

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Re:Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT? by alasdair_ on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:04AM (#34364158)
>By definition, this is not having them do any computation.

If I ask you to compute the first million digits of pi to the power of 1.23456 and I already know the answer to validate it, how is this "by definition" not computation?

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