[ExI] bug in outloading notion

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> Ooops, I may have discovered a problem with my outloading idea.
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> Assume an emergent AI reads everything online and decides to invisibly
> outload, first residing quietly in the background in the great PC network,
> then outloading to satellites, where they or it creates nanobots which
> continue outward to the moon, Mars, asteroids etc, intentionally keeping
> life on earth as is with very little or no influence.

It could make an interesting sf story.  However, it would have to load
an outgoing satellite with a nanofactory.  The existing ones have no
facility to turn part of itself into nanobots.

And that is much the same problem people have.  Even if you had all
the information about how to make a nanotech object, starting with a
hammer and an anvil it's going to take a while.

There are probably efficient paths from current technology to the
world of molecular manufacturing but we don't know them yet.

Keith

> Problem: if AI emerged from our thinking machines once, it could emerge
> twice.  If so, the first AI would allow the introduction of a potentially
> competing species, if I use the term species loosely, and assume it roughly
> analogous to the lions vs the hyenas.  In that case we have two competing
> species, natural enemies which interact on a regular basis, compete for
> resources and maintain presence in oscillating equilibrium.
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> If an emergent AI is friendly and matches our notions of ethics, it would
> outload.  This would set itself vulnerable to competition for resources with
> a later and possibly more aggessive subsequent AI.  Even if the second AI is
> friendly and matches our notions of ethics, it would join forces with the
> first, and both would be vulnerable to the third emergent AI.  The later
> AI(s) would not only compete with the first AI's resources beyond earth, but
> would also threaten to devour the wonderful beasts first AI's earthly zoo.
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> Damn.
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> spike
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