But the definition of work changes and the value of that work also changes. Bitcoin's internal self-referentiality and internally self-transparent genesis sidesteps this issue.
"This means the suffering (work units) incurred by the AI (or the human involved) can be preserved in a way that is immutable and used later for efficiency improvements. That's not to say the work done by the AI is necessarily valuable, but by making it immutable the work done by the AI can be judged/measured to have been worth the amount of resources it took from something else (i.e. an other's suffering) to do the work it did."
I think you are alluding to that fact in that above quote, but I think it still begs the question of preserving a standard, abstract 'value of work' across a constantly changing AI dataset.
"This means the suffering (work units) incurred by the AI (or the human involved) can be preserved in a way that is immutable and used later for efficiency improvements. That's not to say the work done by the AI is necessarily valuable, but by making it immutable the work done by the AI can be judged/measured to have been worth the amount of resources it took from something else (i.e. an other's suffering) to do the work it did."
I think you are alluding to that fact in that above quote, but I think it still begs the question of preserving a standard, abstract 'value of work' across a constantly changing AI dataset.