Interesting. One thing I would mention, which I suspect this site has overlooked, is the value of computing power to altruistic projects—Cryptocurrency is quite unsustainable at the moment due to being essentially a ‘print money using huge numbers of computers and huge amounts of electricity’ industry, but if someone could figure out how to change those crypto rigs into more general-purpose supercomputers, or even just write some conversion algorithms?
We could get cheap protein folding out of it.
This is such a big deal to medical research; I don’t think I can articulate how big a deal it is. (Quite frankly, I do not know. But.)
Okay, why are people downvoting so strongly? I’ve been giving unsolicited advice, to be sure, but that’s a huge part of Rationalist culture. Do you just have a thing against bizarre positivity?
Interesting. One thing I would mention, which I suspect this site has overlooked, is the value of computing power to altruistic projects—Cryptocurrency is quite unsustainable at the moment due to being essentially a ‘print money using huge numbers of computers and huge amounts of electricity’ industry, but if someone could figure out how to change those crypto rigs into more general-purpose supercomputers, or even just write some conversion algorithms?
We could get cheap protein folding out of it.
This is such a big deal to medical research; I don’t think I can articulate how big a deal it is. (Quite frankly, I do not know. But.)
It’s worth looking in to. :)
Okay, why are people downvoting so strongly? I’ve been giving unsolicited advice, to be sure, but that’s a huge part of Rationalist culture. Do you just have a thing against bizarre positivity?