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Yeah, not sure it was possible given the incentives.
> How do you expect this to happen?
Institutions will stake their tokens and have disproportionate voice in the consensus. Whenever the US government tell them to do something fishy, they will oblige and no one can do anything. That's not surprising, though: this deficiency in PoS has been well known for a long time.
People have tried that a lot in 2020 soon after GPT-3/Dall-E 2 was released. It's a losing game. The value is very clear and gigantic.
It's not intuitive, but it's what decades of behavioral genetics studies say. Adoptees have much stronger correlations with their biological parents than with the parents that adopted them (in all socially meaningful metrics: intelligence, income, etc.). Monozygotic twins correlate much stronger than dizygotic twins, etc.
[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...
That's trivially true. The question is: are we any different?