[avaer]

What's the incentive for anyone to participate in this? It seems wildly expensive (in tokens), high mental overhead to understand, high hardware cost. So what's the upside?

Is it for people with too much money and time on their hands to flex on Github?

I could at least understand the pitch if there was a crypto scam attached, or if folks were getting paid somehow (which might be an interesting social/AI experiment). But that doesn't seem to be the case.

[zachmu]

What's the incentive for people to contribute to an open source project?