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No Data Lasts Forever

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Re: No Data Lasts Forever

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This cannot be true. Science marches ever forward. We are learning new things constantly and no knowledge has been lost. New findings from new studies always augment our growing base of empirical facts and evidence. We are more advanced today than anyone, anywhere in the past.

How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?

FTL travel. Alternatively, just displace the universe into a larger, younger universe. Easy peasy lemon squeezy ;p

Re: No Data Lasts Forever

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A blockchain funded by data contributors is an interesting idea.

If fees for adding data were continually adjusted to keep data size to an economically viable size.

I.e. there would be a continual auction of adding data, with the fees spread out among verifiably maintained repositories (say fastest generation of hash across all data from previous hash, every minute.)

And each repository could compete by price to service data requests.

The point being: long term distributed incentive to maintain and serve data.

(Scaling to vast amounts of data vs. sharding - allowing individual repositories to hold partial data - balanced to ensure distributed backups, but not more than necessary to keep each archive size manageable for many providers.)

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Best done without creating any new coin type. I.e. avoid creating any non-aligned hype incentives.

Maybe this has already been done?

Re: No Data Lasts Forever

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A blockchain funded by data contributors is an interesting idea. If fees for adding data were continually adjusted to keep data size to an economically viable size. I.e. there would be a continual auction of adding data, with the fees spread out among verifiably maintained repositories (say fastest generation of hash across all data from previous hash, every minute.) And each repository could compete by price to serv…

I’m no expert, but I know chia network [0] is a crypto based on proving you have data stored. Not sure how popular or properly incentivised it is but could be a solution like you’ve described.

0: https://www.chia.net/

Re: No Data Lasts Forever

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This cannot be true. Science marches ever forward. We are learning new things constantly and no knowledge has been lost. New findings from new studies always augment our growing base of empirical facts and evidence. We are more advanced today than anyone, anywhere in the past.

Plenty of knowledge has been lost. Can you read Linear A?

Re: No Data Lasts Forever

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True, but data will be aggregated to train generative AIs. If those systems prevail, then the original data will live in spirit.

Maybe that will be the ultimate destination of all data: To train AIs.

In the future, data creators should be compensated for their contributions to build AIs.

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