polynya
@polynya
This reply is representative of many others. AGI will not be a single entity like a human or a simple bot on a single server, but rather a set of networked intelligence(s) across millions of machines around the world. We can already see this property emerging in today's LLMs - GPT-4 was trained across 25,000 GPUs, inferencing over 128 GPUs. Side-note: blockchains are not immutable or permanent, as can be seen with Ethereum blobs that are deleted every 18 days; and the rest of Ethereum will too with EIP-4444 and other initiatives in The Purge. Indeed, blockchains will rely on non-blockchain P2P solutions like Bittorrent or Portal Network. As I've written about at length, the only unique feature of blockchains is achieving strict global consensus in realish-time. With AGI, this is no longer relevant as they can achieve strict global consensus trivially, and go far beyond that to attain more complex and subjective forms of consensus. Again, caveat for all of this - if an AGI actually happens.
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depatchedmode
@depatchedmode
It's really frustrating that folks don't realize most blockchain state will be lost like tears in the rain. And that the real promise is that *relevant* *ordered* history *can* be persisted with them.
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binji 🔴
@binji.eth
hmm this feels like a general education problem, I was under the impression that some level of query ability will be accessible in some way shape or form despite pruning eventually. If that isn’t the case, a lot of the things being built today could quite literally become obsolete.
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polynya
@polynya
It's not even the latter - eventually blockchains will not persist anything at all. But that's fine because it's a 1-of-N assumption after consensus is achieved
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