#openledger $OPEN @OpenLedger

I have been thinking differently about OpenLedger lately. At first it looked like another system that uses intelligence to figure out who gets credit for the data they contribute. It is supposed to reward people make sure the models work well together with the help of validators and connect everything using the $OPEN token. This is how cryptocurrency systems work.

The more I learn about these systems the less I think that giving credit is the most important part of the economy.

What really matters is memory.

People think that artificial intelligence memory is automatically valuable.. When you have a lot of it memory gets expensive. Storing information costs money. It can also get you in trouble make it hard to follow the rules and cause arguments about who deserves credit.. Systems have to keep all that information forever. Remembering everything is not free.

This made me wonder if the economies of the future will change. Of paying people to store information forever they might pay them to get rid of it when it is no longer needed.

Then the way we think about the OPEN token will be different.

The question will not be who gets paid when new data is added to the system.

It will be who pays to keep the information safe over time and who pays to get rid of it.

This creates a kind of demand, for OpenLedger and the $OPEN token. The people who build, validate and contribute to the system may need to keep working to decide what to remember and what to forget.

They cannot just sit back. Wait for their investment to pay off.

I still have some doubts. The systems that give credit are complicated. There are companies competing with OpenLedger.. Sometimes the stories we tell about a company can fall apart when new information comes out.

I keep thinking that the most valuable artificial intelligence systems will not be the ones that remember everything.

They will be the ones that understand the value of forgetting.