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Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin appears in 3 indexed conversations across The Cognitive Revolution, Thread Guy. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
The Truth About AI, Quantum & Crypto's Encryption
Thread GuyMertIllia PolosukhinZK DragonTulip King
Current AI advances have not meaningfully weakened the factoring or elliptic-curve problems securing major blockchains, leaving cryptographic resilience intact for now.Smart-contract hacks appear the more immediate loss risk, while cheaper formal verification and adaptable schemes at Zcash and NEAR contrast with Bitcoin’s rigidity if a breakthrough emerges.
User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin
Illia PolosukhinErik TorenbergNathan Labenz
NEAR’s user-owned AI thesis combines private, verifiable inference with decentralized compensation for GPUs, model weights, and proprietary data, with confidential computing offering 1% to 5% measured overhead.The network could turn benchmarks, fine-tuning, and even frontier models into inspectable, tokenized ventures, while unstoppable agents create unresolved risks around security, legal enforcement, human governance, and irreversible actions.