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>Juels is known for warning about technological threats before they emerge. In 2015, he published a research paper about so-called “criminal smart contracts,” software programs that could “facilitate leakage of confidential information, theft of cryptographic keys, and various real-world crimes” including murder, arson, and terrorism.

>How might such a murderous program work? Imagine that the contract specifies the target and the price. A technically-savvy would-be assassin submits a few short words describing their intended approach: “piano + fifteenth floor.” News of the crime gets picked up by a local media source, and that information makes its way back to the contract via a mechanism known as an oracle. (That’s both the title of the book and a type of technology that Chainlink Labs, where Juels is chief scientist, helps make.)

>It’s real
>Article comes out on 2/16

They’re fucking with us at this point. Ari just make this shit hit $100

>This seemed unsettlingly plausible enough that I had to ask Juels whether something like this was actually possible. His response wasn’t entirely reassuring, because according to Juels while the the technology to create the exact smart contract described in the book hasn’t been created yet, it will be here in a few years.

>“This cautionary tale wasn’t my intention when I first started writing the book, but when ChatGPT dropped, suddenly the landscape changed,” Juels told me. “So the book is a cautionary tale: People need to be cautious now about how AI tools get added to blockchains.”

>Juels said he hopes that by the time such a smart contract becomes possible, the appropriate safeguards have already been put into place to neutralize it.

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>>57635385
BASED LPL CHUDDIE KIDDOS HOW YOU DOING BASED KIDDOS POOLS CLOSED SEETHE

>>57635316
>same shirt

Oh shit they are going to kill Sergey... it's over

Biz is dead

Someone drown Hippasus already! C'mon man!

Saturnalian Memeickrymagick Kabbalistic Rite Ancient Blood Libel Nigro Beaner Token Can Tongue My Anuses And Spill Blood to Build The Empire For the Next Century

>>57635354
Chainlink x ChatGPT wen

>>57635405
I thought all he did was dump. Wouldn't that be a good thing?

>>57635316
Ari will you sign my book? Do you have a PO box or something I can send it to?

>>57635798
You can get a free signed and numbered book plate if you fill out this form before February 20th (while supplies last):
https://twitter.com/oraclenovel/status/1758475285127635309

>>57635858
>dox yourself goy
pass

>>57635316
Araron Jewels is the GOAT

oh no a cornell professor is going to know your address the horror

>>57635316
>a Cornell Tech computer science professor,
I feel like this isn't doing him justice.

I actually hope this book does well (unlike how his Tetraktys novel went) since it'd add prestige to his name which subsequently builds more hype for LINK.
>>57636816
Yes they should also include that he's the Zhang Weili recipient or whatever the fuck that title is.
And Chief Scientist of CLL of course.

>>57635858
What's the code on them? an eth address?

>>57636745
Nice try Ari

Let's do a smart contract for Larry Silverstein. Anyone can send funds to it to increase the reward. Decentralized assassination.

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>>57636745
>oh no a cornell professor is going to know your address the horror

you mean the guy who's been obsessed with assassinating people and hacking them and has been into this stuff for years? nah no thanks im not letting the most dangerous man in crypto know where i live.

>>57638149
>nah no thanks im not letting the most dangerous man in crypto know where i live.
He already does.

it's easy to spin this as him wasting company time and therefore investor money on frivolous bullshit that only serves himself, but don't be so harsh: would you really act differently? the money is rolling in anyway since the marketing team is doing such a great job, might as well have some fun

>>57636745
Cornell is deep state retard

>>57635398

based lpler how you doin kiddo?

POOL IS OPEN!!

>>57638149
Assuming it's even anything to do with the book. Could be a criminal phishing scam and instead of a stupid book plate you get your balls in a pair of pliers by 4 burly black men who politely request your pvt key. No thanks

>>57635385
>safeguards
unfortunately there are no safeguards against assassination contracts
once there are oracles out there that can reliably confirm whether one is alive or dead, it's gg
the closest thing for protection would be governments heavily censoring citizen information and keeping everything related to deaths confidential and forbid media from reporting on them

but it's hardly a solution, it is a defense mechanism against something that cannot be countered, plus government officials with insider information would still pose a vulnerability
and it would not work for anyone even moderately famous, unless there was an internet-wide censoring operation to obfuscate the time of death of people

>>57639179
>reliably confirm
how could you prove a persons identity?
>enter kleros court ser
everyone will wear masks and bodyarmor.

>>57641150
government documents/databases
all you need for an assassination contract industry to operate is answering these 2 questions: "is x citizen alive?" and "when did x citizen die?"
even if such information is heavily censored or obfuscated, famous people whose death date is likely to be publicized would still be vulnerable

also if you wanted to go further into the cypherpunk dystopia that awaits: AI death identification
all the assassin needs to do is post unedited footage of the kill as "proof", then an AI unit processes it to ensure authenticity, potentially juxtaposing the claim with third-party sources if the footage by itself is not completely reliable

BASED LPL CHUDDIE KIDDOS HOW YOU DOING BASED KIDDOS POOLS CLOSED SEETHE

I'm looking forward to when Ari finally steps up from hacking Chainlink's competitors and starts just issuing assassination smart contracts on them instead. I hope he starts with Pyth.

>>57635316
My copy is already on the way. I read his first book too, it was pretty good. This actually sounds like it could be even better.

>>57641602
I haven't read his first book, but I'm pretty excited about this one. I placed an order too.

I like to imagine that he's also secretly the author of 'Cult of the Black Cube'.

>>57641321
footage can be proven genuine through use of cryptographic signatures at hardware level, as well as gps and other data which are through deco for obvious reasons

>>57641321
>databases
how will you know any of it is real?

>>57641784
What the actual fuck am I investing in?

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Everest

>>57642200
A bunch of cringe incels larping about being dangerous. Mind you these are fat/weak losers that cant do 10 pushups. Desperate for some kind of identity in life they’ve attached themselves to a cult that in the fantasy will make them “important”. Of course we all know reality doesnt play out like that, but then again youre talking with…


THE Cuckolds of crypto

>>57642999
KEK

>>57642999
I can do 100 pushups or 20 pullups in a row. Can you say the same fudcuck? Now run along back to the tranny discord chat

>>57636968
I think he just incrementally numbers each bookplate but in hex.