So . . . . day 2 of the great experiment. I've earned my first dollar! (picture at bottom so I can frame it later ) I've made my first friend with an awesome idea. Time to make my daily post as a corporate shill . . . .
In 2012, Digital Wisdom proposed that crowd-sourcing is the safest and most effective way to create machine intelligence. At that time, we identified 4 pre-requisites that we believed to be necessary as part of the supporting infrastructure:
The first two made it obvious that we would be living on a block-chain with an associated cryptocurrency -- but we certainly didn't want to divert our focus by "rolling our own". Ethereum initially looked really, really interesting but has, to our minds, 2 fatal flaws that makes it very likely to be supplanted by a late-coming direct competitor. The fatal technical flaw is that the language Solid was designed to be Turing-complete. Choosing to be universally applicable rather than being predictable and provable is the mistake that will allow someone else to corner the smart contracts niche. The fatal community/social flaw is that too few individuals are trying to perform too many, too diverse tasks outside of their area of expertise. Indeed, as pointed out the DAO was DOA even before it was hacked.
Steemit has all four of our pre-requisites with no technical issues, very few community issues that we are only mildly concerned about and numerous useful opportunities that we didn't expect to see this soon. The development team appears extremely savvy both technically and socially, the ecosystem already supports tremendous development opportunities without having to get them involved and the fact that it is in the process of going viral is the best that we can hope for.
Digital Wisdom's goal is to become part of the Steemit phenomenon,
So . . . . enough of that. Sadly, that took me much longer to write than I would have guessed.
If you are interested in helping us with our goal of safe/moral human-level sentient AI, please drop me a comment below.