I too am very interested by this one, and a 30 sec Google didn't turn up anything - @DJ_Erock23, do you have a checkable source on mining being "the primary catalyst behind several efficiency increases in consumer hardware"? Thanks!
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Replying to @davidgerard @ButtCoin and
Nope... I'm the source. I have a brain, and having been involved in the manufacture of semiconductors, I understand that we don't make them just to do it. Someone has to want them. Miners want faster, more efficient GPUs, and shop for them according to their performance demands.
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Replying to @DJ_Erock23 @ButtCoin and
right, so you're surmising that this is happening
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Replying to @davidgerard @ButtCoin and
Given the performance leaps, and quarterly gains, I have zero doubt it has been.
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Replying to @DJ_Erock23 @ButtCoin and
you appreciate that saying "the incentives are there, it *must* be happening!" is not quite the same thing as "here is evidence it is actually happening as I describe" I've done literally this one this week with bitcoiners over renewable energy. mere incentives are not evidence.
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Replying to @DJ_Erock23 @ButtCoin and
no, i'm asking for e.g. "here is nvidia saying a fucking word". showing there are incentives is lovely, but doesn't show the incentives were therefore realised. this is obvious to non-bitcoiners
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Replying to @davidgerard @DJ_Erock23 and
> I'm not doing it for you. you're making the claims. back them with more than lists of theoretical incentives.
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Replying to @davidgerard @DJ_Erock23 and
like,
@AriDavidPaul tried this one too - you make the claims, *you back them properly*. it's called the burden of proof, and it's really not a complicated concept.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @davidgerard @DJ_Erock23 and
David, this is twitter - a deliberately brief and superficial medium of communication. You seem to have mistaken it for a research journal. There is no 'burden of proof' in casual conversation. If you're unswayed by someone's argument, go on with your day.
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Also, understandable to nitpick the "primary catalyst" language. Completely naive to think near a decade and billions in chip design, fab, and scaling, has had no role in advancing consumer computation.
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