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Across
  1. 5. A mesmerizing aerial pattern created by a large flock of starlings moving in unison
  2. 7. A confident but false or absurd output produced by an AI model
  3. 9. Describing a complex property that arises spontaneously from many simple elements
  4. 11. A cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a fiat currency at roughly 1:1
  5. 14. Coordinates in a multidimensional space representing the meaning of words
  6. 16. A chain of linked records forming a decentralized digital ledger
  7. 19. A person who raises urgent warnings about the dangers of future technology
  8. 21. The spontaneous rise of complex phenomena from many simple interacting elements
  9. 22. A thought experiment describing a future hostile AI that punishes those who knew of its coming but did nothing to stop it
  10. 23. CTO of MintRail, the company that built the spending-restriction system
  11. 26. A convincing imitation of intelligence or understanding without any true comprehension
  12. 27. The part of a generative neural network that compresses an image into digital noise
Down
  1. 1. A written character representing a concept rather than a sound, as in Chinese script
  2. 2. A system of total surveillance — used as a metaphor for CBDC control
  3. 3. A digital record book in which all transactions are stored
  4. 4. A complex self-repeating geometric pattern that emerges from simple mathematical rules
  5. 6. A network-wide agreement that validates each new block of transactions
  6. 8. A single computational unit inside a neural network, performing a small mathematical operation
  7. 10. The branch of physics stating that something cannot be created from nothing
  8. 12. Assets locked by a network participant as a guarantee of honest behavior
  9. 13. The part of a generative neural network that reconstructs an image from compressed noise
  10. 15. The process of earning cryptocurrency by solving complex computational puzzles
  11. 17. A scheduled event that cuts the Bitcoin block reward in half
  12. 18. Director of the Digital Liberty Project, a critic of programmable CBDCs
  13. 20. A mathematician whose famous test measures whether a machine can pass for a human
  14. 24. The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin
  15. 25. A unique digital "fingerprint" of data, produced by a mathematical algorithm