We are going to need proof of work for everything
We might move toward a “signed reality.” Just as we use SSL certificates to prove a website is genuine, we may soon demand that cameras and microphones cryptographically sign their content at the moment of capture. If a photo of a car accident doesn’t have a digital chain of custody proving it came from a specific lens at a specific time, insurance... See more
Sam Schillace • We are going to need proof of work for everything
Proof of work - solutions?
BlockChain, which is more Proof-Of-Ownership than Proof-Of-Work, is NOT energy intensive, but it does require a chain of trust, which in BitCoin's case required scale, to compensate for the lack of a central authority, which therefore requires more energy, but not like the other one...
We may need apprentice, probation, small projects… That said, I don't really care about who wrote the homework or did the job interviewee really do everything he said he did. Those, as you mentioned, were always proxies for the real questions - in this case, what did you learn and can you do the job. We just need to get better at getting to the real questions. (And if they can use AI to do the job, why not AI on the test/interview?)
What I really care about is when people use AI enhanced lies to steal or manipulate us into doing things we wouldn't do if we knew the real truth. When people can crank out believable lies at 10-100x faster than verified truth, that's a problem. We become inundated with lies and, as you mentioned, that erodes trust and leads to paranoia
The idea that hit me this morning is that society has always relied on its own implicit version of Proof of Work for all kinds of things. We have operated on the assumption that if a document, a photo, a technical report, slide deck, student essay or any “cognitive artifact” was complex, it was hard to produce. That difficulty was our proxy for... See more
Sam Schillace • We are going to need proof of work for everything
Proof of work