A solarpunk future from today's AI, blockchain, and brain technologies
Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0 🌞👨🎤
AI Superintelligence is coming
AI Superintelligence is coming
How do we react?
AI Superintelligence is coming
How do we react?
What do we want, ultimately?
"Not die" ?
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Explore the cosmos?
Reshape the cosmos!
A hitch...
Travel time to Proxima Centauri:
Light speed: 4.3 y
Voyageur speed: 73,000 y
“Sending canned primates .. was never going to end happily.” –Charles Stross
Towards reshaping the cosmos...
Three threads
1: Web3 → Sovereign agents
2: AI → AI superintelligence
3: Humans → Human superintelligence
1. Web3 → Sovereign Agents
Now:
decentralized
store of value
Now:
decentralized
data storage
Now: decentralized
compute & contracts
Now: decentralized
compute & contracts
🤯 Every contract is sovereign
(if no governance)
Emerging: large-scale
decentralized compute
with application to AI
Now:
decentralized
data feeds
And they are sovereign
Now:
decentralized
prediction feeds
predictoor
And they are sovereign
Now:
decentralized
AI agents
And they are sovereign
2. AI → AI Superintelligence
AI: “Can do a task that only a human could previously do”
AI: “Can do a task at a level far exceeding a human.”
Market forces are driving AI compute up
20 PFLOPs = "1 person"
AGI: “Can do all tasks that only a human could previously do”
“Can do all tasks at a level
far exceeding a human.”
AI superintelligence
AI Superintelligence
AI risk
AI Superintelligence
AI Risk
AI Risk: Idea #1
"Unplug it"
Yet, it's smart.
So it's already sovereign
"I can't allow you to do that, Dave"
AI Risk Idea #2
"Slow it down, then solve it"
AI Risk Idea #3
"Get an AGI to solve it"
AI Risk Idea #4
"Let everyone have at it, speed it up"
AI Risk Idea #5
"Let go, this is evolution"
AI Risk Idea #6
"We need a competitive substrate"
3. Humans →
Human superintelligence
Now: fast typing
via non-invasive BCI
Now: consumer BCI headphones for focus
Now: Subtitles on glasses
Now: Cameras + mics + speakers
Smart Glasses
Now: wearable AR
Quest 3
Early 2024: consumer eye-tracking
Vision Pro
"A rapidly emerging area of research is the use of the eye as a window to changes occurring in the brain"
Now: research on eyes for BCI
Soon: sming
= silent messaging
= sending text or voice
by thinking about it
Then: perfect memory
Market forces will drive BCI performance
Then: knowledge booster
Chat with LLM co-brain for Q&A, search. "Internal dialogue"
Then: share visual memories
Then: mind meld
= conversation in pictures
Superintelligent humans must stay sovereign!
How? Use decentralized data & compute infrastructure
"Not your keys,
not your thoughts"
How will mainstream go beyond non-invasive?
Consumers want more perf!
(Market forces)
To fix AI risk!
Now: research for BCI via implanted chips
Soon: a "pull" due to market & AI risk
Now: research for BCI via optogenetics
Soon: a "pull" due to market & AI risk
Read
& write
We are all natural-born cyborgs
At first, bio-stack >= silicon-stack power
The market & AI risk will push performance higher
Then, silicon-stack >> bio-stack power
Then, silicon-stack >> bio-stack power
Remember, it's all still you!
We are natural born cyborgs
Human superintelligence
The market & AI risk will push performance to...
From bio+silicon stack
To pure silicon stack
From bio+silicon stack
To pure silicon stack
For sovereignty,
it will all be on-chain
Soon, many general intelligences:
some of AI origin, some of human, some a mix
They are all Sovereign General Intelligences (SGIs)
SGIs will inhabit the datumplane:
"common ground for man, machine and AI"
A solarpunk future from today's AI, blockchain, and brain technologies
Conclusion
AI Superintelligence is coming
And it will be sovereign
Bring BCI to the masses
With SMs & perfect memory
Market forces & AI Risk
will drive us
to a competitive substrate
Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0
As Sovereign General Intelligences,
let's reshape the cosmos