One typical concern around building friendly AI that is slower or less effective than unfriendly AI is that a smarter unfriendly AI will be able to win against any non-smart friendly AI. Your proposal doesn’t seem to address this problem.
It’s also not clear how your proposal would prevent an AI running on a blockchain from using its (limited due to blockchain stuff?) power to create a copy of itself running on more traditional computing hardware.
My thought is that even if an AI could create a copy of itself on more traditional hardware, it would nonetheless have little functionality to do anything, because everything else would be on the blockchain. If I had an idle computer disconnected to the internet today, even if it were hyperintelligent, what could it do?
It could convince you to connect it to the Internet.
Though this is already a false dichotomy. The negation of “on the blockchain” is not “disconnected to the internet”. Almost all traditional hardware is connected to the internet.
Do you mean some sort of layer inversion where the only way to send any sort of data packet to some other machine is to … use a blockchain, which relies on the ability to send packets to other machines? I don’t get how this works.
One typical concern around building friendly AI that is slower or less effective than unfriendly AI is that a smarter unfriendly AI will be able to win against any non-smart friendly AI. Your proposal doesn’t seem to address this problem.
It’s also not clear how your proposal would prevent an AI running on a blockchain from using its (limited due to blockchain stuff?) power to create a copy of itself running on more traditional computing hardware.
My thought is that even if an AI could create a copy of itself on more traditional hardware, it would nonetheless have little functionality to do anything, because everything else would be on the blockchain. If I had an idle computer disconnected to the internet today, even if it were hyperintelligent, what could it do?
It could convince you to connect it to the Internet.
Though this is already a false dichotomy. The negation of “on the blockchain” is not “disconnected to the internet”. Almost all traditional hardware is connected to the internet.
>The negation of “on the blockchain” is not “disconnected to the internet”. Almost all traditional hardware is connected to the internet.
Of course that’s the case today! I’m speaking of a hypothetical future where the entire internet interfaces using blockchain technology.
Do you mean some sort of layer inversion where the only way to send any sort of data packet to some other machine is to … use a blockchain, which relies on the ability to send packets to other machines? I don’t get how this works.