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Offtopic. Can we make a piece of software that automatically pays for discovered bugs with some form of cryptocurrency? The idea inspired by Knuth, who offered
by akomtu 5y ago
Offtopic. Can we make a piece of software that automatically pays for discovered bugs with some form of cryptocurrency? The idea inspired by Knuth, who offered to pay twice more for each new found bug in TeX.
- scatters 5y agoWell sure, each and every smart contract has an automatic bug bounty attached.
- TheDong 5y ago> Can we make a piece of software that automatically pays for discovered bugs with some form of cryptocurrency? In the general case, no, not without having AGI. There are a subset of bugs that computers can verify (i.e. for a compiler, it might be asserted that "any input that causes a crash is a bug"), but the majority of bugs will require a human-like intelligence to read them and reason about them to determine that "yes, this is a bug". Given you have to involve a human in the loop to actually fix it, it seems like automating a bounty for it is fixing a problem that doesn't really exist. There's also vanishingly few projects that want to pay for literally any bug. The majority only want to pay for critical bugs or security vulnerabilities, both of which are purely human judgements.
- greiskul 5y agoIt's a very bad idea to make any sort of completely automated system for dispensing money, cause you will have human adversaries that will try to exploit it.