did the credit assigned to new knowledge lead to civilizational abundance?
Have a blockchain layer between human and ai so that Anthropic can buy my prompt history. But right now they get it by asking for it as the price of model access. The open source models aren’t learning directly on their users problems…. But they could through blockchain.
New ideas must come from humans (a necessary but insufficient source of new knowledge)
Did research institutions enable civilization to prosper by providing social incentive to share new knowledge? If so are we at risk of killing the golden goose if stack overflow stops being a place where people are incentivized to share ideas . The academy was a place people could share new ideas and thus get credit while benefiting larger society
Will the foundational models hoard the new knowledge needed to further society? what inccentive do they have to share? well the people making the new knowledge may publish it to multiple channels (some into claude, but some on their own blog). Then the LLm with apparently insider info will have to share that “secret” since it found its way out to other models throuigh the normal public web channel.
Web3.0 is wrong. It’s not that the whole web2.0 will morph into a new form. It’s that we can now make multiple webs, whose boundaries are drawn differently and whose rules also operate differently., You can think of them as parallel universe internets, but not all of them do the same thinig for the same people. The private insurance group is one web3.0. The rules for buying my personal unpublished thoughts (as opposed to my published thoughts for which I ostensibly get public web2.0 credit) could be different than the cred I get on github or stackoverflow. Maybe some web3.0’s limit their users to robots that have to prove they are robots (of course this means robots defined in certain ways that may not overlap robot A may be very diofferent from robotB)
What do I get from web2.0 places?
- traffic
- eyeballs
- public “cred” (my user profile gets upvoted on reddit etc) web3.0?
- privacy
- can my continuous blood glucose levels actually stay private to my insurance group and never be leaked into public? MAYBE!
- private “cred”?
What about the pluralist web? things work differently here. IS digital “space” even a thing? is it a separate or universal “place” at all? IS AI helping push us humans out of the “world” so that we might focus on our actual kingdom of heaven?