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AI-blockchain convergence is probably much closer than it seems. Beneath the shallow tech-culture rivalry I’m seeing more and more weird complementarity. One strong signal is that there is a nontrivial contingent of mathematicians with serious chops in both.
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Makes sense because though there’s big $ in AI it’s all concentrated in big orgs or well-funded startups while crypto money is more distributed. That’s one reason I think the rivalry is shallow. At a technical/math level, it’s almost PB&J but the economic scenes do not harmonize.
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I feel like the ML people talk about crypto (negatively) significantly more than the crypto people talk about ML (that is it say, almost never)
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Interesting point. In fact I’d make the stronger case that an AI safety problem is only real if it can be cast as a crypto rights/identity/data ownership type problem. Otherwise it is some bullshit theology about basilisks, simulations, paperclips and such.
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The acceleration towards AI safety problems for which there are probable crypto solutions may force it.
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