IMO the through line is the proof-of-useful-work. 

I attended a talk about this paper and from what I remember, it's a way to coordinate auctions for CO problems you need solved. Not sure how it could be applied to abstract problems like 'develop a method to train llm on consumer grade hardware', but what if? 



random_

Interesting. What's the through line between these two? It seems like they might connect but how?

k00b

mostly_harmless

Incentives and coordination to solve hard problems

elvismercury

>And the next obvious question, of how one might introduce a meta-system atop the existing system that could do better.

Tangentially related:
[COCP: Blockchain Proof-of-Useful-Work Leveraging Real-Life Applications](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9922117)