[09bjb]

No, but imagine a world in which brain power was distributed by consensus via a decentralized ledger, rather than a bio-authoritarian central party! The crowdsourced, democratic nature of DeBi(o) would sense this problem early and avoid it in the first place. There are other solutions as well, but they all have one thing in common...you guessed it, blockchain technology!

[sytelus]

It is not about brain power but the computing power. The biggest fallacy with crypto is that combined computing power owned by general public is more than few powerful entities. This has never hold true in the history of humanity. The 1% of people owns 80% of the computing resources. So there is no "decetralized" or "distributed" authority. For instance, US or Chises government can put togather more GPUs than the rest of the public combined any day perform 51% attack on any crypto. The reason for this lies in tax arrangement in physical world. No matter what people earn, government is taking away a big chunk from them and thus always can have majority resources than rest of the public combined.

[wahnfrieden]

your history of humanity is sorely out of date - see graeber and wengrow's works for instance

[ianbicking]

I can legit imagine this being used to describe a gig-knowledge-worker DAO, where via "decentralized consensus" the "best minds" were directed at "humanity's most important problems".

But in reality it would be a bunch of people paid in gamified company bucks to write spammy blogs and comments to promote shitcoins that a small number of the DAO members would trade on while the rest debated if they should buy some half-assed NFT because it would support a community of creators.

[cecida]

Brain power on a ledger? I've heard it all now.

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien: “Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

[frozenlettuce]

after all, our reality is just some random quantum fluctuation generated in some alien's graphics card that is mining alien crypto