[ExI] Homo radiodurans (was Maximum Jailbreak)

[William Flynn Wallace]

John, I appreciate your thoughts and will leave you with them.  Of course
you are right that one cannot anticipate all possibilities.  I am sure that
better minds than mine are on this.  bill w

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 9:47 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:46 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> *> Since everybody is so scared, all the way to downright paranoia, do you
>> think that techs of the future will be alert to the possible problems you
>> pose?*
>
>
> Yes, but do you think the US military will unplug an AI that is working
> even better than they expected if they had evidence the Chinese had a
> similar machine but no evidence they had disconnected it? And it wouldn't
> just be huge government agencies that could do it, as computers continue
> getting smaller and faster there will reach a point when a individual could
> make a AI in his garage or even his closet. I would maintain the
> probability that biological humans will  be able to stay one step in front
> of computers despite their exponential increase in hardware capability year
> after year and century after century is virtually zero.
>
>
>>   > *Of course they will.  The first computer that shows signs of what
>> you are afraid of,*
>>
>
> If the AI is really intelligent then it will also be alert to the possible
> problems I pose, much more alert in fact than any human could be, and so it
> will not display any signs of what they're afraid of until it's far too
> late.
>
>
>> > will be unplugged from anything it can manipulate
>
>
> Will the AI that runs the world's power grid be unplugged, or the stock
> market, or the banking system, or missile defense, or air traffic control,
> or cryptanalysis?
>
>
>> *> and fixed.*
>
>
> Easier said than done, that's why even today computers behave in ways we
> don't expect.  There will always be an element of unpredictability in
> programing. With just a few lines of code I could write a program that will
> behave in ways nobody can predict, all the program would do is look for the
> smallest even number that is not the product of 2 prime numbers and then
> halt. But will it ever halt? I don't know you don't know nobody knows, all
> you can do is watch it and see what it does, and you might be watching
> forever.
>
> Of course in this example it's possible tomorrow somebody will prove the
> Goldbach Conjecture is true and then we'd know it will not halt, or maybe
> tomorrow somebody will prove the Goldbach Conjecture is not true and then
> we'd know it will halt, but there is a third possibility. In 1936 Alan
> Turing showed that there are a infinite number of statements that are true
> but have no proof. If Goldbach is one of these, and there is no way to know
> if it is or isn't, then a billion years from now a Jupiter Brain will still
> be looking, unsuccessfully, for a proof that it is true and still be
> grinding through gigantic numbers looking, unsuccessfully, for a
> counterexample to show that it is false.
>
> > *The only scenario that would fit your thinking is if all the AIs of
>> the world woke up at the same time and had the same agenda, somehow
>> overcoming Asimov's laws or their updated equivalent.  *
>
>
> I love Asimov's robot stories but his laws are laws of literature not of
> physics or mathematics.
>
>  John K Clark
>
>
>
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