failure family
environmental and resource cost
- proof-of-work-energy-externality: Proof of work mining carries significant externalities: the authors estimate that the total energy cost of running the global network of computers sol
- proof-of-work-energy-waste: Proof of work consensus is energetically wasteful because the entire global network redundantly computes wrong nonces, with the Bitcoin network consum
- Consensus by Redundancy Waste: To form consensus and offset worker error, requesters in centralized micro task structures assign teams of up to fifteen workers to the same task, and
- Consensus by redundancy: Centralized requesters buy quality through redundancy, assigning up to fifteen workers to the same task to form consensus, which multiplies cost, prod
- Generative Substrate Exhaustion: In the computative commons the governance task inverts: because realization-level output is non-rival while generative capacity is rival, governance m
- Binding Constraint Cascade: If intelligence becomes post scarce, the binding constraint migrates rather than disappearing, moving to electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare