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I wish it were doing protein folding work or something less wasteful.
I wonder if that could be a thing
FoldCoin
put crypto nonsense to work and maybe help fund research
That exists already, actually: GridCoin
Would you trust the output of an A.I. swarm?
The idea is to pick some task that is very difficult to calculate, but easy to verify. E.g., confirming a crossword is correct is much faster than filling one in.
Protein folding is one such example, and it's useful to boot. The results can be used in medical research, for example.
Donating compute via Folding@Home was quite popular for a while for this exact reason.
I don't know how protein folding works, but if it's easy to check it's correct, then doesn't that violate that mathematical principle where verifying an answer is as difficult as computing the answer in the first place? I forget the name of it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, volunteers at home are already self-selecting to be mostly honest and donating correct answers for a good cause. Their output trustworthiness is moderate-high. Spammers, bots, A.I. swarms, ddos networks, random users, etc… not so much. You can't really trust their output at all, you have to verify it very carefully and treat it as malicious or just incorrect junk by default.
What the distributed computing stuff does is check many many potential answers. You're only interested in the right answers, and they're easy to verify. If there's a concern about junk answers, the answers could probably be compared across multiple clients to verify.