flyblackbox

flyblackbox t1_je234fu wrote

What about decentralized autonomous organizations run on the block chain via smart contracts? If what you’re saying is true, that traditional companies are unable to be run by AI, there will be new organizations that are able, and it will be new competition for the traditional corporate structure.

AI being considered legally human is unlikely, but isn’t more unlikely that human CEOs will be able to compete with AI leaders? Because if a novel organizational structure can be formed in order to accommodate the legal challenges presented by the limitation of personhood requirements for traditional corporations, it will outcompete.

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flyblackbox t1_je21mcg wrote

This prediction points to an explosion in blockchain smart contract solutions. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations directed by AI seems to be what you’re describing. The price of crypto like Ethereum is going to skyrocket if what you’re predicting takes place.

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flyblackbox t1_je1p1b9 wrote

Just to add my two cents, the article you cited by Kurzweil has had a bigger impact on my world view than anything else I’ve read before or since. I read it in 2003 and still I’m convinced it is a sound theory.

I’m curious if anyone else who read it has began to have doubts since?

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flyblackbox t1_je0867n wrote

Wait, your second sentence invalidates your first. Most can’t access their 401k before 10 years. If your second sentence is true, why would it be stupid to cash out a 401k considering you are 30 years from retirement?

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flyblackbox t1_jcl8oo9 wrote

Reply to comment by shmoculus in Those who know... by Destiny_Knight

Amazing. I really can’t wait to see how this progresses. Some are pessimistic because of alignment, but I’m optimistic because almost nothing could be worse than what we have going currently.

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flyblackbox t1_jcksgqa wrote

Reply to comment by cosmic_censor in Those who know... by Destiny_Knight

I keep thinking the next crypto bull run will be powered by AI integrations. More specifically, decentralized autonomous organizations being directed by LLM to allocate resources in the most efficient way. They will be able to outcompete centralized orgs managed by humans.

Also, in a world where all content can be fabricated we won’t know what’s true anymore. That is a perfect fit for cryptographically hashed digital content, to help give us something we can trust.

People keep saying crypto is dead because AI has arrived, but to me they seem to go hand in hand.

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flyblackbox t1_jaszex0 wrote

The biggest things I can think of, born in 1987.

We had to make phone calls from a phone connected to a wall at all times and if you weren’t there to answer the phone, too bad. There was no cell phone service, or World Wide Web until about 1995, and only a few people even had email in the early 90s.

Trying to navigate to a physical location was a either a guessing game or literally looking at a map and trying to figure out where you were, where you were going, and running your finger across the map to see what roads went that way. If you didn’t have a map, you had to stop and ask for directions where someone else would tell you how many turns to make or what landmarks you would see on the way.

Oh and to learn any fact, you had to either know someone knowledgeable on the topic and ask them or physically go to a library, hope that had a particular book on the topic and that someone else hadn’t already taken it out before you got there.

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flyblackbox t1_j49pofl wrote

What’s great about this sub is the readiness to challenge preconceived notions underlying big problems, combined with abstract thought needed to solve them. Sure, sometimes that leads us down some wonky paths with silly premise, but it comes with the territory.

We should encourage this! Be sure not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

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