digitalni vrstva sveta jako planetarni fenomen, digitalni (aka "umele") inteligence jako projev rozvoje teto vrstvy sveta (ci pouze vrstvy civilizace?)
k tematu od juliana assange nez byl pred nekolika lety odstrizen od komunikace
Enrico Fermi was out walking amongst us out in Los Alamos with some of his physicist buddies and he looked up at the stars and said: where is everyone. [...] His question is very deep - it's that there don't appear to be any. And by appear I mean there are no physical signs that we can detect, in terms of what happens to stars, the energy seems to be constantly boiling off being wasted into space, we don't hear radio signals, we don't see anything of civilized life.
And yet in the last 10 years [...] planetary astrophysics has shown that there's tens of thousands of extrasolar planets that we have actually detected on an individual basis. And from that you can assemble the probabilities of there being Earth-approximating planets. And there's hundreds of millions, maybe billions just in this galaxy. So the question then becomes: Well, where is the civilized life? Why don't we see it? Why don't we see any signs of it anywhere?
The answer to that could be that the reasons we don't see signs of civilized life with the increasingly powerful measurement apparatus is because life simply doesn't evolve, life itself. That's why we don't see civilized life. There's something very rare about the earth and the means of life here evolved. But when we look at the Earth and when we look at extrasolar planets, we don't see any reason why that should be true. In fact we we see organic amino acids in space dust and asteroids and so on, and we know that asteroids cross-pollinate. For example there's asteroids here from Mars, bits of Earth have gone to Mars etc., when we get hit by an asteroid and stuff flies off etc. So there's quite a lot of reason to believe that the basic building blocks of life have spread widely, so my view, and I think it's the the only view you can take so far until more data comes in, is that there's something very unstable about civilization.
There's something very unstable about technologically advanced civilization that means it doesn't go on for long, and I think the answer to that is the very rapid competition, if you like the light speed competition that occurs when you wire up the world to itself. And that very rapid competition can have two fates. Number one, it can produce very robust artificial intelligences that are then coupled with their States. You can see that panning out in the United States and China as they each shore up. [...] Those two forces are going to take essentially all the market and the rapid competition between them with the backing and support of the states behind them. The exacerbation of the commercial competition through geopolitical competition will lead to an uncontrollable desire for growth in artificial intelligence capacity, leading to a very severe conflict or statification. You can follow these trajectories in different ways, it takes too long to describe.
So I think that's our biggest threat - it is geopolitical competition removing what otherwise might be sensible human controls on the development of artificial intelligence. That geopolitical competition are harnessed by and is itself harnessing the largest artificial intelligence companies to ratchet up a process which human beings can no longer control. Not in the sense of there being killer robots, although of course Google is now putting its AI in drones and so on, so yeah, there are killer robots. Not in this classic dystopian sense, but rather in a way that comes from understanding how human institutions behave, which is institutions that are built on competition and growing their size and dominating markets etc., [and that] take any advantage they get and will continue to ratchet up in competition and everything that they produce has that DNA in it. And that's where we're headed, and that's a severe threat to human beings in general and all businesses. But perhaps the answer to that threat is people understand computer security, offensive computer security in particular, trying to work out what to do about it.
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"The future of humanity is the struggle between humans that control machines and machines that control humans.
While the internet has brought about a revolution in our ability to educate each other, the consequent democratic explosion has shaken existing establishments to their core. Burgeoning digital super states such as Google, Facebook and their Chinese equivalents, who are integrated with the existing order, have moved to reestablish discourse control. This is not simply a corrective action. Undetectable mass social influence powered by artificial intelligence is an existential threat to humanity.
While still in its infancy, the geometric nature of this trend is clear. The phenomenon differs from traditional attempts to shape culture and politics by operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears highly likely to eclipse human counter-measures.
Nuclear war, climate change or global pandemics are existential threats that we can work through with discussion and thought. Discourse is humanity’s immune system for existential threats. Diseases that infect the immune system are usually fatal. In this case, at a planetary scale."
- J. Assange
Julian Assange last Interview before Communications Cut at Ecuadorian Embassy - Londonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBy4KJ6OVC4