groundzeros2015 3 days ago

I’m suprised nobody has mentioned that Claude is the realization of all this blockchain work - an internet computer you rent time from where the computation is measured in tokens :)

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bdcravens 3 days ago | parent [-]

You just described time-sharing. Cryptocurrency mining is much different, in that you can commit computation resources and never get paid.

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groundzeros2015 3 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed it’s much more similar to time sharing than cloud compute.

But time sharing was never as global and accessible. It was a group in a company or in a university sharing a specific machine.

The currency discussion is different too. Time sharing was just a local fee. Now people are talking about the tokens themselves can do for them.

	▲	hparadiz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		HN is generally sleeping on the next big tech that is coming for running this stuff locally. Which is quite performant and will soon be in everything.