Facebook is optimised for likes generation and short dopamine bursts, and could evolve into wireheading machine and-or social manipulation tool. Imagine a global distributed wireheading machine which could affect election results in the ways which will give it even more power.
The same about bitcoin. It rewards people monetary for creation of some useless infrastructure. It is not intelligent but could buy someone’s intelligence for solving its task of growth.
Facebook is a single system and therefore not subject to moloch. Concretely, yeah the algorithm could start manipulating election results to get more power, but if that happened it would be an ordinary AI alignment failure rather than Moloch.
The bitcoin example seems more like moloch to me, but no more so than (and in same way as) the market economy already is: People who build more infrastructure get more money, etc. We already know that in the long run the market economy leads to terrible outcomes due to Moloch.
I think I can see how market and money-making is like this, but facebook and bitcoin? Can you elaborate?
Facebook is optimised for likes generation and short dopamine bursts, and could evolve into wireheading machine and-or social manipulation tool. Imagine a global distributed wireheading machine which could affect election results in the ways which will give it even more power.
The same about bitcoin. It rewards people monetary for creation of some useless infrastructure. It is not intelligent but could buy someone’s intelligence for solving its task of growth.
Facebook is a single system and therefore not subject to moloch. Concretely, yeah the algorithm could start manipulating election results to get more power, but if that happened it would be an ordinary AI alignment failure rather than Moloch.
The bitcoin example seems more like moloch to me, but no more so than (and in same way as) the market economy already is: People who build more infrastructure get more money, etc. We already know that in the long run the market economy leads to terrible outcomes due to Moloch.