If you want to point out an area in which high-quality open-source software is desirable, I would suggest software verification (i.e. proof-of-correctness) tools. These would be valuable both to create secure networks and systems (thus helping to eliminate the hardware overhang that might contribute to an unplanned uFAI) and also to help to build trustable FAIs.
As something of a quibble, why did you choose to call a world in which AGI technology is in widespread use an “information-dependent post-utopia”? What earlier stage constituted the utopia?
“Post-utopia” here is used in the same sense as “post-industrial age”: the utopia begins as humanity reaps the benefits of AGI-accelerated technological development. However, this is a utopia only in the sense of being a unimaginably better economic state than the present; it can be far from ideal in terms of political realities.
To be honest, I thought you were closer to the mark with your post last year promoting network security. And I thought that Eugine_Nier was right-on in responding to your critics.
If you want to point out an area in which high-quality open-source software is desirable, I would suggest software verification (i.e. proof-of-correctness) tools. These would be valuable both to create secure networks and systems (thus helping to eliminate the hardware overhang that might contribute to an unplanned uFAI) and also to help to build trustable FAIs.
As something of a quibble, why did you choose to call a world in which AGI technology is in widespread use an “information-dependent post-utopia”? What earlier stage constituted the utopia?
“Post-utopia” here is used in the same sense as “post-industrial age”: the utopia begins as humanity reaps the benefits of AGI-accelerated technological development. However, this is a utopia only in the sense of being a unimaginably better economic state than the present; it can be far from ideal in terms of political realities.