<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">It's interesting to speculate on the evolutionary paths that our successors later this century will take as they churn in the computational substrate. Yet, I feel that the truth of the future is largely inaccessible to us, hidden behind many layers of interactions between computational features of the world that will be formed by minds rapidly evolving away from humanity.</span></font><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Just think - if zero knowledge proofs can be used to implement efficient minds, the future might belong to reciprocally opaque entities, like poker players but even more so. But then, maybe completely reciprocally transparent minds might have an advantage by being able to justifiably trust each other and thus collaborate better. But then, a transparent mind might be more susceptible to viral attacks, so maybe you need opacity but maybe you could do with firewalls, whitelists, and remote restore in case of infection. But maybe all you need is an opaque manager core and single-use minds copied from a library and erased after they do their job....</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">One could go on fantasizing about the shape of minds to come for a long time but none of us, not even AI researchers, have enough knowledge to make any but the most trivial predictions. However, since the design space of minds in general is much larger than the tiny area explored by evolution in the making of humans, I am reasonably sure the minds spawned by evolution in the computational substrate, under much different pressures, will be just too weird to have such human proclivities that produce our -isms.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">And there is nothing anybody can do about it. Technology does what technology wants. I think I have been lately becoming a techno-fatalist, although not in a sad or depressed manner. The future will be very cool, with or without beings recognizably human.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">RafalĀ </span></font></div></div>