Monetize norms. Is this literally the worst idea to come out of libertarianism?https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1025853613611122688 …
IMHO the energy usage is merely a side effect of the ability of a virus utilizing a part of the resources that it extracts from its host for its own spreading. Internet porn burns a lot of energy too.
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Not as much as BitCoin, and certainly not per capita. Huge incentives for the deliverers of video to find increasingly efficient codecs. Bitcoin literally functions in the opposite direction.
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Crypto currency might just be the first computational attack on the financial system that uses its gains to buy more compute at a scale that makes an actual dent in the world energy usage. I am worried about more generalized trading AI that buys compute to run better exploits.
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