Byzantine Robustness

Vote counts are cheap; finality is expensive Vote. That is the comfortable answer whenever multiple AI agents disagree. Ask ten agents, collect ten outputs, pick the majority, maybe weight by confidence, then call the result “robust.” It has the pleasant managerial smell of a committee decision. Everyone participated, something won, a spreadsheet can be made. ...

Data markets usually sound simpler than they are. A buyer wants data. A seller owns data. A platform matches them. Payment moves. Everyone gives a keynote about “unlocking value.” Then the real problems arrive wearing steel-toed boots: the data is private, the seller may be low quality, the buyer wants a model rather than a spreadsheet, the compute layer may be dishonest, and nobody wants to trust a central broker unless absolutely necessary. ...