joshualedbetter

This is an essay I've been wanting to write for a long time now. It tries to give a concrete answer to the commonly asked question: "What Problem Does Web3 Solve, Anyway?" I also try to give specific use cases, and address some of the more common objections that I see.

Imagine a robot trying to argue that it doesn't if they live in Westworld; I mean, the robot bar tender still has to tend bar. Imagine Truman trying to convince himself that it doesn't matter if he's in a TV show or not.

Their arguments, no matter how clever, would be absurd when looking in from the outside.

If there's a high probability that the simulation hypothesis is true, it seems clinically insane to believe that it doesn't matter.

"Chimps have better short term memory than humans, even on human oriented tasks... Short term memory is an important dimension of intelligence. By Kelly's argument, humans are not smarter than chimps; indeed, he would claim that "smarter than chimpanzee" is a meaningless concept. This is cold comfort to the chimps whose species survive only because we deign to allow it. It is colder comfort still to all those species we have already wiped out. It's also cold comfort to humans who might be worried about being wiped out by machines." -- Human Compatible by Stuart Russell, page 148

lol you may want to pull your head out of the sand https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/17/lawyers-could-be-replaced-by-...