Topic: [ANN] aiShare: Crowdfund the Decentralized Singularity - page 2. (Read 11015 times)

Holy macarole this is exciting !

EDIT : I talked to some friends more intelligent then myself and they called this "fiction".

Until you have some actual science to back this up and a big team of dedicated programmers, and a lot of funds.... you guys have no chance.

I understand your concerns over scalability and computational efficiency, but this is something that will work itself out in future developments of the Ethereum platform. We can’t expect to have every problem worked out from the beginning. Splitting our attention into so many different currencies and projects lacking any significant overlap is counter-productive to everyone. Look at javascript, it’s a complete mess and yet it drives nearly everything on the internet. Likewise with the limitations of the blockchain. The solution isn’t to start everything from scratch, but to iterate incrementally toward a common goal. Web 1.0, 2.0, and now 3.0 if Ethereum succeeds is the only way we are going to make progress. Ultimately, scalability and efficiency are factors that become superfluous with the agile development of the current system and the growth of computational power.  

We need to stop the fragmentation and paralysis that is destroying our planet. The only way we can do this is if we start pooling our resources into a single decentralized environment in which we can realize our varied aspirations without ideological bias preframing the system. At some point we need to settle on an architecture that solves the majority of our problems. Ethereum is the next logical step on that path. Crowdfunding superintelligence, on the other hand, while highly desirable is not immediately feasible, nor is it something we can all give universal support. I have no doubt what you are hoping for is going to happen, but it is far in the future, perhaps web 5.0 or 6.0. If you want to dedicate your life to something that is potentially decades away, fair enough and good luck to you. Personally, I think the singularity is already happening, it begins with the open society Ethereum makes possible.  

It Begins with a Seed

The grand Bitcoin experiment has proven - against all odds - that a decentralized currency is both technically possible and also capable of bootstrapping monetary value into existence seemingly from nothing.  Yet despite this success, Bitcoin and all of its kin are flawed, for: 1.) blockchains do not scale efficiently (an intrinsic design limitation), and 2.) proof-of-work is an enormous waste of computational resources that could otherwise be allocated to vastly more profitable uses.  The full potential of the future machine economy is almost beyond imagination, but this vast potential will not be realized by any network of dumb nodes following a simple Blockchain protocol.  The key problems run deep down to the technical foundation, and the required solutions go far beyond simple improvements such as fully programmable contract scripting (ala Ethereum).  Yes, that too is important, but also pointless without solving the deeper scalability and efficiency problems for decentralized consensus that - once solved - will provide the foundation for the new machine economy of the Singularity.

Aionic is an upcoming agoric programming language, platform, and network designed around the concept of communication between and with intelligent autonomous agents.  It extends the concept of probabilistic programming (itself the most significant recent development in programming language theory) to include the concept of utility(value) - the foundational concept that makes markets and economies possible.  In traditional imperative programming, the developer describes exact logical instructions to a 'dumb' logical interpreter or compiler.  In agoric programming, the developer instead communicates high level goals and or rough program descriptions to a distributed economy of probabilistic reasoning agents, essentially contracting out the work to find a concrete implementation and execution on one or more machines.  In its most sophisticated eventual form, agoric development fully automates programming itself.

We are building Aionic as the foundation for aiShare : the decentralized research project to advance general AI towards benevolent artificial superintelligence, crowdfunded through a new truly scalable cryptocurrency - the Aion.  Every new coin issuance incentives actions and thus funds some change in the world.  Bitcoin, Ethereum and other proof-of-work coins fund worthless hashes.  Out of the space of all possible distribution strategies, the optimal distribution is simply that which maximizes the long term value of the coin.  There is nothing more valuable than superintelligence.

Our goal is to decentralize the Singularity - and in short - to save the world (literally).  The future is much too important to leave control in the hands of the few, the current elites.  The future needs your help; we ask for the community to join us as founders, developers, investors, evangelists and volunteers to ensure that the vast potential of general AI is used for the benefit of all mankind.

Find out More, and Join Us

main site: www.aishare.co

reddit: http://reddit.com/r/aiShare

aiShare was first announced on Friday, December 19, 2014.  Crowdfunding began on that date and is ongoing in the form of an Aion presale implemented through Bitcoin - full details are available on the main site.

This project is in its early days - all feedback is welcome.