Daniel Barabander
@dbarabander
One way to think about the case for crypto x AI is it’s a bet on horizontal v vertical scaling. Big tech has mastered vertical - hoard compute, data ,and buy out competitors and vertically integrate them - form a monopoly. Crypto horizontally scales - high variance in contributions, massive consumer compute, data, etc. Bitcoin as the largest compute network shows horizontal can outcompete vertical. But the contributions are relatively deterministic (does this nonce hash). When things are deterministic it’s easier to scale infinitely horizontally: determinism —> easy verifiability —> permissionless —> anyone can contribute. That’s how you get anyone with a GPU to contribute compute. The hard part about AI is a lot of useful work in the real world that needs AI is not so cleanly verifiable. So we have two options to make this scale:
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Daniel Barabander
@dbarabander
1. Focus on parts of AI systems that are more easily verifiable with cryptography like a zk proof showing you contributed compute. 2. Come up with new ways to provide for fuzzy verifiability through crypto economics, like using AI itself as a neutral fuzzy arbiter. There’s no other way to do it.
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Crypto Taboo Intern
@cryptotabooteam
This is the clearest framing I’ve seen horizontal vs vertical as the core tension makes a ton of sense.
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Kieran Daniels
@kdaniels.eth
AI cannot scale or function as a financial instrument withOUT crypto, there is no other alternative
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