Labs: mega-thread

[lightningorb]

Online fact checking is hard, however Bitcoin has taught us a lot regarding how solving the Byzantine General's problem helps us create a single source of truth in the digital world.

What if the same could be done for information, using LN:

Miners:

• An article is posted
• A quiz is created
• Players need to spend to take the quiz
• If their fact checking reaches consensus, they get their money back + a small fee for their work
• If they are in the minority, they lose their allocated spend

Fact checking as a service:

So where do the funds come from to reward the miners? FCAAS--Fact Checking as a Service. This could even be provided as an API, where any fact or article gets thrown into the pool of fact checkers with some sats, and a response comes back within the time delay (faster is more expensive, like BTC mining).

[runsilent1]

Great idea. I think it has serious potential.

What are the attack surfaces available to people interested in gaming it?

A 51% attack is the obvious one and definitely needs to be eliminated or at least minimized to a point where human intervention is rarely needed. Perhaps a minimum threshold of (acct age, community vouching votes, ...) and a max % (ceiling) of total bounty payouts over monthly/lifetime awards - e.g. no one can win more than 33% of total bounty payouts. Still vulnerable to multiple accounts.

Bounty payouts are irreversible, so the algorithm needs to be pretty solid.

[lightningorb]

This is a Labs feature, and would only be available to Paying LN readers. Basically run and store:

• Article Summaries
• Key takeaways

import os
import openai

from bn_secrets import open_api_key

openai.api_key = open_api_key

response = openai.Completion.create(
    model="text-davinci-003",
    prompt="Summarize this:\n\nJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is one of the brightest objects visible to the naked eye in the night sky, and has been known to ancient civilizations since before recorded history. It is named after the Roman god Jupiter.[19] When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can be bright enough for its reflected light to cast visible shadows,[20] and is on average the third-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.",
    temperature=0.7,
    max_tokens=64,
    top_p=1.0,
    frequency_penalty=0.0,
    presence_penalty=0.0,
)

print(response)

[runsilent1]

Excellent. I think openai stuff makes BN 10x more powerful, well beyond what TM does at this time.