If I may, Bitcoins would essentially be the energy of a potential ecosystem. BTC are convertable to all the resources required for self replication in a digital world.
Would anyone care to speculate as to potential ecological niches?
Topic: When will Bitcoin achieve sentience/form a major part of an A.I.? - page 2. (Read 3418 times)
April 26, 2011, 01:06:34 PM
April 26, 2011, 12:46:53 PM
Totally, but I think that data would be really useful to an A.I.
It could model it to use processing power to earn (through means other than mining) or steal Bitcoins, and use those Bitcoins to buy bandwidth, storage, processing power.
It makes the whole thing a lot easier for it.
It could model it to use processing power to earn (through means other than mining) or steal Bitcoins, and use those Bitcoins to buy bandwidth, storage, processing power.
It makes the whole thing a lot easier for it.
If AI is able to steal coins people are probably not going to be storing much value in them. But yeah there will be a lot of data.
April 26, 2011, 12:42:54 PM
Totally, but I think that data would be really useful to an A.I.
It could model it to use processing power to earn (through means other than mining) or steal Bitcoins, and use those Bitcoins to buy bandwidth, storage, processing power.
It makes the whole thing a lot easier for it.
It could model it to use processing power to earn (through means other than mining) or steal Bitcoins, and use those Bitcoins to buy bandwidth, storage, processing power.
It makes the whole thing a lot easier for it.
April 26, 2011, 12:40:59 PM
Having a good money will help us advance tech possible to extreme levels, but it isn't going to BE intelligent any more than the phone system is.
April 26, 2011, 12:38:33 PM
There's a huge step between a metric shit ton of data and processing power and a singularity, don't you think?
April 26, 2011, 12:34:40 PM
Obviously, you'll have to roll with me on this one.
If Bitcoin becomes humanity's dominant economy, the Network itself will have huge processing power, but what's more important is the human computation being put into providing data to the Network.
Our capacity to make economic decisions is one of humanities most impressive rational traits. A network composed of millions of brains making semirational economic decisions about their environment, combined with phone geolocation and Google Street View seems like a fantastic source for data for an emergent entity.
If network traffic were paid in BTC per GB, negotiated on the fly. If phones uploaded geolocated pictures to a server and paid in BTC for distributed hosting and tor were paid a voluntary speed up package in BTC, the sheer complexity of data being processed per second should even be checked for sentience!
If Bitcoin becomes humanity's dominant economy, the Network itself will have huge processing power, but what's more important is the human computation being put into providing data to the Network.
Our capacity to make economic decisions is one of humanities most impressive rational traits. A network composed of millions of brains making semirational economic decisions about their environment, combined with phone geolocation and Google Street View seems like a fantastic source for data for an emergent entity.
If network traffic were paid in BTC per GB, negotiated on the fly. If phones uploaded geolocated pictures to a server and paid in BTC for distributed hosting and tor were paid a voluntary speed up package in BTC, the sheer complexity of data being processed per second should even be checked for sentience!
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