Evolution favours organisms that grow as fast as possible. AGIs that expand aggressively are the ones that will become ubiquitous.
Computronium needs power and cooling. Only dense, reliable and highly scalable form of power available on earth is nuclear, why would ASI care about ensuring no release of radioactivity into the environment?
Similarly mineral extraction—which at huge scales needed for VInge’s “aggressively hegemonizing” AI will be using inevitably low grade ores becomes extremely energy intensive and highly polluting. Why would ASI care about the pollution?
If/when ASI power consumption rises to petaWatt levels the extra heat is going to start having a major impact on climate. Icecaps gone etc. Oceans are probably most attractive locations for high power intensity ASI due to vast cooling potential.
Evolution favours organisms that grow as fast as possible. AGIs that expand aggressively are the ones that will become ubiquitous.
Computronium needs power and cooling. Only dense, reliable and highly scalable form of power available on earth is nuclear, why would ASI care about ensuring no release of radioactivity into the environment?
Similarly mineral extraction—which at huge scales needed for VInge’s “aggressively hegemonizing” AI will be using inevitably low grade ores becomes extremely energy intensive and highly polluting. Why would ASI care about the pollution?
If/when ASI power consumption rises to petaWatt levels the extra heat is going to start having a major impact on climate. Icecaps gone etc. Oceans are probably most attractive locations for high power intensity ASI due to vast cooling potential.