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X post from Major Jason Lowery, the guy who wrote Softwar...
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In hindsight, the counterbalance to the threat of #AI will be obviously #Bitcoin. Here's the billion dollar answer that nobody seems to understand yet:
AI agent hackers = the inevitable end state of infinitely collapsing marginal cost of computation. Systems that are capable of outsmarting & exploiting any human-made cyber defense system that attemps to use conditional, permissioned-based logic alone.
Bitcoin = the world's chosen proof-of-work protocol. Want to defeat an AI agent hacker? you can't rely on conditional logic alone. you have to introduce something into the equation that AI can't defeat: brute-force physical limitations. AI's Achilles heal is computational cost, and it just so happens that the world has adopted a proof-of-computational-work protocol where we treat the electro-mechanical cost of computing as a tradeable digital asset that can be used as a form of restrictive collateral: it's called Bitcoin.
Understand this, and you understand the fundamentals about how Bitcoin will become the thing that ALL computing systems rely on to defend them against the threat of AI.
"digital gold" barely even scratches the surface of the importance of Bitcoin in 2030 and beyond.
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On one hand we want bitcoin to stay a pure money and only money, and on the other hand we want it to be magic something coin that everyone uses to defend against ai? Sounds like some eth would try to capture. What I’m I missing?
The physical process beneath Bitcoin and how it relates to time, energy and entropy.
Money is the most basic surface level description of Bitcoin.
I’m not smart enough to understand the ins and out but below is how I think of it after reading his book.
Bitcoin doesn’t need to change and this isn’t an ethereum type thing.
Bitcoin is the most secure protocol due to its proof of work and it should/will make Bitcoin the base layer of the internet.
For example, imagine if you had to use a set of private keys to login to your work computer. Like signing a message which is confirmed by the bitcoin network to prove the keys belong to you and you are allowed to sign in.
This makes it near impossible for AI computers to steal data as long as you keep you private keys offline.
Our data, work and even some personal lives are all in the digital realm making it very easy for things to get stolen because the internet is not tied to the physical realm. Bitcoin, from its proof of work mechanism, gives humanity a chance to tie the digital realm to the physical.
I agree. I don't know what he's trying to convey. Bitcoin can't be hacked by AI. I get that, but how does this defeat an AI hacker?
How does it defeat AI social engineering attacks?
I've heard a lot of people say Bitcoin is better collateral than credit cards at paying for computational costs. Is that what he's trying to convey? That's true . I've been doing that for over 2 years.
I wish he was on nostr. Such a fascinating guy
He is
got an npub and proof?
You’re right. I shouldn’t have said he’s on here. That goes against his privacy. Even if I don’t share any further information. Peace ☮️
If he's on here pseudonymously, then it doesn't really address the note you're replying to. the implication of the OP was "I wish he would post stuff on nostr", not "I wish he would lurk anonymously".
If your goal was instead to unverifiably brag that you know what npub Lowery uses, well then: mission accomplished.
My goal was that someone would be happy to know he’s here. Truly.
Okay. well snark rescinded then.
It’s all good. I didn’t distinguish btwn the anonymous part of it which is why I appreciated your kind correction. 🫡
Maybe ima wrong but sometimes just knowing others are near helps me.
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