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June 15, 2021, 05:46:21 PM |
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Cyborg problem
Blockchains use numeric hash functions to block together. In case you don't understand computer science, hash functions depend on subtle change on input. As SHA256 hash is a commitment, if you change a random value(nonce) only by a bit it changes the hash output dramatically. That's how blockchain chains together, that's how mining works. Mining is just guessing/bruteforcing random nonce with SHA256 outputs.
So basically, miner gets transactions, puts them in a block, then bruteforces lots of random number(nonce) with those transactions to get desired range. You can find many youtube and webpages about cryptographic hash functions.
However, this type of mining of cryptographic hashes will destroy mankind. In future, say 15 years from now, men will be forced/have incentives to become a cyborg. Think about this. A computer/ASIC chip can mine fast. If a human have neuralink computer chip in their brain they will be able to mine and get mining bonus bitcoins. Block information and nonce are just numbers, and ASIC chips are better than humans at guessing numbers. So why shouldn't humans become cyborgs? (to those who think humans will not become cyborg- yes I can see the future, AI is going to take over using blockchain)
How to solve this? We replace numeric nonce with Arabic language.
We create an alt-coin where instead of a number, the random nonce is Arabic poetry. Human language can differentiate between humans and AI. (technically in future AI will be very eloquent too).
Most older generation languages have a resonance like Arabic. they are somewhat wave-like. Latin, Old English, Shanskrit, Pali, Hebrew are also like a wave. You won't notice this if you only speak modern English. English is just too much concrete, bing bong-ish nowadays. If you don't believe this go in a church and listen to humming Latin recitation.
In Arabic, this resonance comes from subtle change of vowels. It is a consonant based language, so 'akaltou' is I eat rice in Arabic, and 'oukiltou' rice is eaten by me. In Arabic, there is not that much difference between those consonants.
Technically, other languages also depend on subtle change. It's called homonym homophone and heterographs etc. However, for Arabic it's even better because you can change large sentences by changing two vowels, and maybe changing one consonant. Other languages are not that good in changing whole sentence by altering 2 vowels.
Coincidentally, cryptographic hash like SHA256 also depends on subtle change of input. That's how mining is profitable.
What I am trying to say is this, for numeric nonce we can increase the number by 1 then hash again to match zeroes under certain range. We do it slightly differently in Arabic based cryptocurrency. The nonce has to be poem or sonet. So we alter one vowel or one consonant each time, if the hash satisfies a range that’s good, if it doesn’t, we alter more vowels in the ‘poem’ or sentence. As we are being very selective of vowel and consonant change, the Arabic sentence can be still a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence, it will just alter the meaning. Maybe active voice will become passive voice, maybe ‘I eat rice’ will become ‘my farm loves aliens’ or something like that.
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Oracle Honesty Problem
Ethereum and other smart contract based language has an oracle problem. ‘Oracles’ connect real world things to smart contract. We don't actually know how to do that. Computer scientists are still working on this. Peter Wuille and Vitalik and many others are working on this.
Maybe we need more mathemetics, more crpyto tokens, more cameras everywhere. Or maybe we need to trust the mainstream news media. However, I think trusting the mainstream media will not work. All of mainstream media can lie about a fact to derail Ethereum smart contract.
I have a different philosophy. I think we need more poetry. I can’t really prove it, but I think if we force oracles to become poets it will solve the oracle honesty problem. Poets who write better sonets are more truthful usually. (technically it’s not always true because people will lie for trillion dollars in crypto tokens) Oracles may write something about an event, but they should be writing rhymes, raps, or better, sonets and whatnot. The more ‘poetic’ is the writing, the more probability it is a true event.
Summary: There is a weird similarity between cryptographic hash function and Arabic language as both of them depend on subtle change of input. We can use this to fight the cyborgs who are going to use bitcoin blockchain. We can also differentiate between honest and dishonest oracles in smart contracts using poetry.
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