vitalik on egyptian god protocols ness
vitalik buterin on egyptian god protocols ness
via tweet [https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2096589479305961591?s=20]:
One optimistic and still very-non-consensus belief I have about the far future of cryptography:
I think that there is a 33% chance that, for average real-world computation, there exist ways to implement all three of what I call the Egyptian God Protocols (SNARK, FHE, iO) with 1+ε factor overhead (meaning, for large enough instances, the added overhead of cryptographizing a computation becomes arbitrarily small compared to the base cost of doing the computation itself)
100% if we get rid of all the cancerous distraction.. ie: any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
And a 60% chance that all three can be done with single-digit overhead (ie. <10x, measured in total cost of energy plus amortized compute)
I think there’s a good chance we’ll get one of these (probably SNARKs with single-digit overhead) by the end of this decade. After all, we’re already there for specialized hash functions and for some LLM inference.
again.. if let go of cancerous distractions.. could happen in a year
via google:
The term “Egyptian God Protocols” refers to a conceptual framework coined by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. It describes the holy trinity of advanced cryptography: SNARKs, FHE, and iO.
The name pays homage to Nick Szabo’s famous 1997 essay, “The God Protocols,” which imagined the ultimate trustless protocol as a “deity” to whom everyone sends encrypted inputs, and who perfectly computes the results without revealing any private data to anyone else
aka: nonjudgmental expo labeling to listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us
itch-in-8b-souls via self-talk as data .. ‘protected/hidden’ by each soul’s idiosyncratic jargon
would facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
huge.. and why we need tech w/o judgment 1st/most
tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
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be you. 