Oblivious Compute: Still Consensus?
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The interesting question isn't whether the nodes converge, the question is what type of computation are we even looking at?
This is written as it is some sort of a great invention, but seems to lack of actual "meat" - I don't see any novel algorithms or ideas there, just some basic replicated data structures, even simpler than CRDTs or blockchain's network consensus.
But there is tons of pseudo-philosophy, making up new terms, and trying to make a it sound deep and mysterious.
Author: if you want to be taken seriously, add one-page intro about (1) what is the problem you are solving, (2) how are you solving it, and (3) what are the alternatives and how is your thing better than them. And (3) is especially important here, it's the difference between clueless person bamboozled by AI and someone who is actually familiar with the field.
The "halt" program is mainly scaffolding: ascii graphics, terminal startup.. and some very simple UDP code, with "linchpin" being a simple check if the new state is valid or not. This is something that beginner students write as one of the first distributed systems labs, not some grand invention or a demo of some new principle.
Again.
(1) what is the specific problem you are solving,
(2) how are you solving it
(3) what are the alternatives and how is your thing better/different than them
Right now, your website answers none of them
Oblivious Compute: every picture of me is when I was younger...
A thought experiment: was the computation what we were doing when the picture was snapped, or the picture itself?