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s/blockchain/distributed immutable public ledger There are real use cases and value from blockchain, but it is far more niche than the crypto and NFT folks wan
by brookst 2y ago
s/blockchain/distributed immutable public ledger
There are real use cases and value from blockchain, but it is far more niche than the crypto and NFT folks wanted to believe. IMO there was a lot of horse-cart thinking. “Blockchain is so amazing any product built on it will be successful!”
Which I guess gets back to AI. But AI is so much more general purpose than secure public ledgers. One is a screwdriver, the other is a million pound press.
- paulmd 2y agoeven if you look at something like DLSS where “all” it’s doing is giving you a tractable approximation of a difficult optimization problem (weighting temporal samples inside a TAA algorithm), that’s such a broadly-applicable approach that it alone would probably change society. The value of increasing shipping or rail efficiency by 5-10% alone is worth billions, and there’s probably thousands of smaller optimization tasks it can be adapted to. The LLM stuff is an even bigger pot of gold potentially, a workable semantic embedding for semantic queries or other things is another thing that a million improvements can be shaken out of. it’s actually bizarre to me how much people stand on the “no commercial value!!!” thing, and I have to view some of it as just being the next round of histrionics from the same people who are mad their deviantart got scraped etc.