You can have 99% of validators on Ethereum censor your transaction, and you'll still be eventually included. With 12 second block times, your transaction would be included in roughly 20 minutes.
I think you're missing part of the story with stocks like NVDA. The value of a stock is also based on expectations, so it could be that all of NVDA's growth for the next decade has already been frontrun by the market, and it's essentially partly a prediction market on how valuable the infrastructure will be for AI, given that the chip requirements will only increase as AI systems are implemented in more and more hardware (robots / appliances / transportation / medicine, etc.). While the growth potential of carbon fuels really remains as it is with modest growths aligned with demand/population, but tempered by alternate energy taking greater and greater marketshare.
So it could simultaneously be hype (very optimistic predictions) and yet still valued appropriatey by the market with future expectations priced in, just with some additional premium due to that demand/hype.
Do you think this changes if we incorporate a model into a humanoid robot and give it autonomous control and context? Or will "faking it" be enough, like it is now?
You can't even prove other _people_ aren't "faking" it. To claim that it serves no functional purpose or that it isn't present because we didn't intentionally design for it is absurd. We very clearly don't know either of those things.
That said, I'm willing to assume that rocks (for example) aren't conscious. And current LLMs seem to me to (admittedly entirely subjectively) be conceptually closer to rocks than to biological brains.
And what about the other billions of people on the planet that don't even have a library, let alone a doorstep to receive a first world delivery service.
You'd want to use a KYC'd L2 that is still secured by the L1. The consortium would just validate transactions on the L2, and the security overhead is payed for by publishing to L1, so no need for validators actually validating and retaining blocks/data. Just a single. or multiple centralized sequencers. That way you also still have access to liquidity if you want additional KYC'd financial services (like for services using USDC), while also having the benefit of a closed carefully monitored system.
That's only if access to liquidity is important to you or you think you'd benefit from the infrastructure already present on an L1. I'd argue for the use case of identity verification, you don't need any of that. Bless a set of core validators run by the federal government or some other central entity contracted out to by the government. Everyone else just runs on this chain. You'll have no throughput issues because your blessed validators are the only ones gating blocks on the chain. You'll also be able to upgrade the chain and other things in a centrally coordinated manner.
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