Time-stamping: An urgent, neglected AI safety measureView in threademiyazono3y510Actually, the internet archive is achieving exactly this goal unintentionally for economic reasons - they're uploading data onto Filecoin because it is so deeply subsidized by the block reward, which has the indirect effect of checkpointing the data in a cryptographically robust way. https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/universal-access-to-all-knowledge-decentralization-experiments-at-the-internet-archive Reply
Actually, the internet archive is achieving exactly this goal unintentionally for economic reasons - they're uploading data onto Filecoin because it is so deeply subsidized by the block reward, which has the indirect effect of checkpointing the data in a cryptographically robust way. https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/universal-access-to-all-knowledge-decentralization-experiments-at-the-internet-archive