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Put it this way, the decisions we make … make a massive difference to our survival, right? Go left, eaten by crocodile, go right and escape. How would we NOT evolve a capacity to choose in our self interest to survive? An AI just mimics intelligence based on its training data, its weights within its neural network. It doesn’t survive, it’s just code.
Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 15/09/2024 at 08:49 UTC
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Put it this way, the decisions we make … make a massive difference to our survival, right?
Absolutely
An AI just mimics intelligence based on its training data, its weights within its neural network. It doesn’t survive, it’s just code.
That used to be my position until I hooked up two servers in a cluster configuration. Necessary to that configuration was a private network with a "heartbeat" signal between them so each server "knows" if the other is operational. This allows the one configuring them (me in that case) to set up an active/active or an active/passive.
Today businesses rely so heavily on their computers that there is a high demand for 100% up time because down time can translate to a loss in megabucks. Servers also have redundant power supplies so they are somewhat protected by power loss. My point is that "survival" has been coded for decades now. Crypto is even worse as pow is allegedly completely decentralized, so it would take a sustained worldwide power failure to knock out something like bitcoin. That being said, I would put my life savings in crypto :-)