"Challenges and Solutions in a Decentralized Social Network"
Jan 17, 2024 - 9:25amSummary: The speaker presents the complex challenge of creating a decentralized social network, with the key objective being to search and rank content on topics like computational intelligence. They highlight that while a centralized system would have an obvious solution with a database for such tasks, a decentralized system complicates matters significantly. The speaker suggests two approaches: embedding information by default for easier search execution and using portals, akin to DNS, to connect various nodes and manage the search operations more efficiently. Another idea is to use a blockchain like Ethereum as a global ledger for maintaining embedding space, although scaling issues are acknowledged, and the concept of reframing portals as parts of "hyperspace" is entertained. "Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk" is a statement possibly indicating that subtitles for a video or media content have been provided by the mentioned website. There isn't enough context to expand or summarize the text further, so the original text is simply repeated: "Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk"Transcript: So I have a kind of strange idea and I don't exactly know how it's relevant but I'm gonna try to give like a conceptual model and I'm thinking at the technology level which is probably not super helpful here but I'll try to describe the goal that it's trying to accomplish and the goal is I mean effectively decentralized social networking. Let's start at that premise and if that is the case the question is well say I'm writing about X topic you know I'm writing about computational intelligence and now I want to find similar ideas and maybe opposing ideas in in this decentralized network well how am I going to go about searching and ranking all of that especially if it's decentralized. In a centralized system it's like fairly obvious how you would go about this because you'd have effectively a database to do that. In a decentralized system it's much more difficult and one of the things that I think about is well there's two aspects. One is the more out there thing which is like okay well we embed everything by default because that allows us to build this kind of search very easily and you can put your embeddings out into the public and that's okay and the question is well if it is completely decentralized and I just happen to know let's suppose that I magically knew all of the peers in the world well I can't send out a million queries and then get all of that data back and then do a map reduce on that and then run an algorithm on top of it that's like just an unfeasible way of getting this information so then this is where like most decentralized things end up being to some degree centralized and instead having some kind of portals and with the portals they are effectively connectors of an n number of people it could be a lot of people could be a small number of people likely there'll be a fairly large variety of portals and probably portals of portals and effectively forming a tree out of these portals in some way or a graph similar to probably how like dns works or something like this and yes anyway basically querying a portal which then does the big operation for you because you don't want to do that on a client device so anyway that's that's one one idea the other idea is again kind of similar to dns but instead basically maintaining a global registry probably on ethereum or something else you know some some kind of blockchain system that because like it's a really good ledger right like that's what these systems are good at is um it's a great distributed ledger that's like literally what it is um so now being able to more or less have like a ledger where where you kind of just are querying like embedding space globally but even that doesn't work because it just doesn't quite scale but i wonder if there's ways of reframing the portals to be like parts of hyperspace and just maintaining parts of hyperspace anyway Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk
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