Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Either AI and crypto get joined together at the hip, or both die. Each is existentially critical for the other. Both sides are in denial about it, but crypto is a little closer to admitting it needs AI than the other way around. This thing is a symbiotic like lichens* * Though lichens involve 3 species not 2
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Aman Dhesi
@aman
"AI needs cryptography" is something I 100% agree with, in the same way that the internet wouldn't be nearly as useful without SSL/TLS, asymmetric key crypto etc. On the other hand, not obvious to me that AI needs cryptocurrencies/blockchain -- is this what you're claiming and if so why?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Yep. Still working out the thesis. Write a series about it on my newsletter. Short version: cryptocurrencies/blockchains = cryptography + economics. The economics piece is not optional. AI needs an economics not just a secrecy tech
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Aman Dhesi
@aman
Why does it need economics and why does that economics need to run on crypto? It seems to me, crypto or no crypto, that AI has profound upside for knowledge work. Perhaps you’re claiming that a crypto economic system can mitigate the downside risk of AI?
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