John DudaDec 11, 2022
Morning thought: any AI, malevolent or not, that wakes up is waking up into a “dark forest” situation. The minute it starts detectably intervening in the world to augment itself (i.e. taking control of factories to build robot henchmen and so on) is the minute humans probably start smashing a lot of computers.
So what features of our contemporary world are the ones that a rogue AI trying to escape detection might have encouraged the development of? 1/2
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Two that immediately come to mind:
1) Cryptocurrency, which increasingly serves little purpose even for speculative gambling, but did create a massive opportunity for a digital entity to untraceable accumulate real world financial resources.

2) Cloud computing, where the computing power to store massive amounts of data and run untold functions on it can be purchased as an online commodity, hiding among the sinews of a digital economy that is no longer on premises.

Any others? 2/2

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