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Nawras Abureehan's avatar

Thanks for the well written article. How do you define the utilisation of the compute resources by the AI agent? (in other words, is the compute utilised for serving only or also training ?)

The importance of this question lies in the production of the AI agent's value. Big tech with their massive data centres are at an initial advantage of using the world's best (producing the highest quality value) AI agents after training them off the network first. How would this be equitable?

If training off the network first isn't the case, then an AI agent would need to train on the network, this makes it an AI pipeline (aka algorithm) rather than an agent. In such case, even if compute is equitable, ownership of proprietary algorithms and big data is still inequitable. It's still unclear to me how does UBC provide economic agency (that was my understanding here) if the most valuable AI agent would still be owned by tech riches/oligarchs.

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Raul I Lopez's avatar

Interesting concept of a crypto coin associated to each Software Agent.

I am thinking of pricing my agents for subscription in US dollars where each customer signs with my company one-year, two-year, or three-year contracts and pays monthly, say, $10,000 USD.

Let me think about this approach.

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SMA 🏴‍☠️'s avatar

this approach cuts out capital gains taxes as well as "income taxes" on labor

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Raul I Lopez's avatar

Yes, I understand, as long as the value is kept in cryptocurrency.

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SMA 🏴‍☠️'s avatar

No. Trump announced today that he plans to make it so there's capital gains taxes on cryptocurrency

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Raul I Lopez's avatar

Ah, so then this would not be good for crypto enthusiasts.

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SMA 🏴‍☠️'s avatar

ah, sorry. typo. Trump announced today that he plans to make it so there's NO*** capital gains taxes on cryptocurrency.

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Raul I Lopez's avatar

Sounds better 🎁

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SMA 🏴‍☠️'s avatar

Also, did you see there's some grifter X account pushing my UBC framework as if it were their own idea, literally outlining each component of it from my past articles on UBC in a thread on X as if they came up with themselves? They're also shilling a UBC shitcoin. They clearly don't understand the actual concepts since they literally made a singular UBC coin instead of working with the actual approach for implementation that I outlined in this (paywalled) article...

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Raul I Lopez's avatar

Haven’t seen the grifter. What is the handle?

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Raul I Lopez's avatar

@sama? He talks about UBC.

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SMA 🏴‍☠️'s avatar

I don't know whether or not sam has anything to do with this grifter/scam. Sam floated the idea of UBC on a podcast after I tweeted the idea tagging him prior to the podcast. The person or people behind the UBC coin scam are more likely to just be some generic crypto pump and dump grifters. They entirely fucked up the entire implementation of UBC by creating a centralized UBC coin/cryptocurrency, which is literally antithetical to the purpose of UBC, and won't work in any sense as UBC is not a singular AI agent nor singular coin, but an entire network of AI agents with individualized crypto tokens, which this article clearly clarifies. Everyone invested in the UBC coin is likely being set up to be rug pulled, and I can't even warn people because my SMA account is locked from posting right now as it was falsely reported. Whoever is behind the UBC coin and X account are probably going to jail for this one. Apparently it has like an $80M (USD) market cap. A scam of that magnitude isn't likely to be looked past without action.

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