Tokens will be the currency of the future, unfortunately not Bitcoin nor Monero. All of us in The Crypto space are thinking in the boomer mindset of cash = money. But in the future, output = money. If we’re lucky Bitcoin, & Monero will be used as tools to acquire tokens because I think tokens will be so valuable, & scarce that using Crypto will preserve tokens needed for output. Human output won’t be deemed as valuable as Machine output. People will save up their human output tokens (crypto/Bitcoin/Monero) to acquire digitally scarce machine output tokens (Claude/Gemini/Grok, etc.) Now yes, self hosting tokens circumvents this but most people won’t have the means to access self-hosted ai, so the vast majority will rely on centralized models. And most self-hosted AI will rent out compute to the big three, much like crypto hashing, and pools work today. In the future there will be “AI Pools”.

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The Ai will do it for us with robots, machines, and 3D printing, etc. In the worst case it’ll be a digital overlay on smart glasses that will guide or instruct the human labor interface on how to proceed. The laborer will be rented out by the Ai, and compensated, we have already seen this happen with “RentAHuman”, and other such platforms. It will only expand from here.
You’re asking too much of the 110 iqs and belows. The 120s and above want this because they’ll be the rulers over the system. The 110s and below will be too stupid to do anything about it. It’s up to us the rare intelligent moral few to keep a privacy focused human powered economy alive.
True. Local AI will be like local mining on your own node. Plebs will just slave away for a few tokens here and their.
I think its wishful thinking to expect to participate as a provider in a network like this built by corporations. They'll want to own the AI, they want to own the hardware. Someone could build a network something like Golem but for crowdsourcing AI output, hopefully someone does, that would be an interesting experiment, but dont expect that future to simply emerge, the incentives for corpos to build out this way aren't there. Also, I don't think AI output will ever he more valuable than human output. AI simply can't imagine, and imagination is the most valuable resource in the world. There's no point to any of this without people.
Silicon Valley believes they are on the verge of building God/A God capable of manipulating the very reality we live in. If all they have to do is borrow fractional compute pennies on the dollar from people around the world to accomplish it, they will. In the worst case, they build a tool that offsets its own losses. Worst case scenario they build a tool that slightly improves human output. Base Case they build a tool that performs at the same level of top humans. Bull Case They Build God/A God.
This assumes that its worth it to them to rent your hardware vs just building your own. The goal here is control, and a system like that doesnt achieve control. The cost to them is buying hardware wholesale in bulk, vs renting our hardware and paying us over time at least what the cost of it is. If the output is more valuable to the owners of smaller hardware setups than they pay, people dont rent it out. If the cost to them is more than buying their own hardware and the architecture build out for such a decentralized infratsturcture, they dont do it. The incentives aren't there. You won't participate in the Borg as a compute provider. It has already more than slightly improved human output. Key word here is human output. The architecture of these systems are such that they cannot actually think. They're crowdsourcing past human thinking to help humans who do the thinking to use already imagined solutions to problems to reduce their workload. Very valuable, but the thing cannot imagine anything. The top humans are imagining the world into existence. AI is just a lever, a way to offload the rote work and focus on the imagining part. A panopticon can be built using this technology. But a system that directs human progress cannot, all ot can do is help manage the direction given to it by the imaginative among us.
Dude you dont need AI smart glasses telling you how to pick tomatoes or hammer a nail into a board. If they dont achieve automation of those tasks in a cost effective way, they'll just pay people to do the thinking too, people think for cheap.
Only 20% of humans think, 30% are told what to think, & 50% can’t think at all. And that’s being generous. Most people don’t know how to do rudimentary, or basic tasks without help, or being shown/taught it. Very few could actually figure something out.
Maybe, but using cognition to pick tomatoes and nailgun particle board is easy enough for most people that they dont need AI smart glasses telling them how to do it. The cognitive load to learn and follow AI directions is probably more than that of doing these types of tasks. You either fully replace humans for most tasks involving farming and construction and that, or you dont replace them at all. I do think eventually these tasks will be replaced. But the thinking part isn't the easy part.