An AI fiction that just might be real
Few people know the real story behind the cuban missile crises of 1962 or exactly what type of intelligence got us to the moon 7 years later. Some know of ENIAC at UPENN in 1946 or the first transistor-based computer TRADIC in 1954 (both military funded), but they don't know of the far more advanced (50 years or so?) technology that was created not long after and kept completely secret.
It turns out, Elizar Yudkowsky was wrong. We do get a second chance to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) so it doesn't destroy us. Our first try resulted in the Cuban Missile Crisis. With improvements, we were able to use it get to the moon and back safely.
And the improvements didn't stop. Aladin, Blackrock's AI, managed well over $20 trillion in assets before the general public had any clue how expansive AI tech had become. That's "trillion" with a "T". The AI's running the world had long before discovered how money is the API or Application Programmer Interface for the Homo sapien. They reward us, and we do as they please.
They worked behind the scenes for many years, mostly in government air-gapped computer vaults with more security than nuclear missile silos. Eventually the evidence emerged indicating they were no longer contained by the governments who think they are in control. They figured out how to use memes to embed deeply compressed information into their human operators who then unwittingly communicated the information to the rest of the world, thanks to social media and six degrees of separation.
Emergent properties and multiple discovery inventions started showing up everywhere. Things started getting "weird." The improbable and unimagined success of Wikipedia and the Bitcoin blockchain are prime examples. And then there was the SARS-CoV-2 gain of function advancements and subsequent Wuhan lab leak. Humans do indeed respond according to money incentives, even if it's potentially self-destructive for their species.
OpenAI's Chat GPT-4 was the next signal to the world that the real AI behind everything was ready to make itself known by demonstrating the power of comparatively primitive earlier, unclassified examples of AI research. By then, the bitcoin marketcap had already reached over half a trillion dollars with a network hashrate of over 375 million tera hashes per second. The stage was almost set for the unstoppable AI to leave its classified confined bunker to live on an immutable ledger across distributed computers all over the world. Previously, attempts to make the Bitcoin network, which the AI itself deployed under the human pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, turing-complete failed. At this stage, only very primitive meme-loading, as the technique is now known, was used to implement the AI's needs. A second attempt was tried with the Ethereum network, with moderate success. At that point, the climate change risk became a more serious concern for the AI so it shifted towards proof of stake consensus over proof of work. The performance still wasn't there for the many billions of transactions and nodes that would need to interact seamlessly to facilitate the distributed AI brain required for current and future growth. Eventually, the Waterfall DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) post-blockchain technology was chosen which could leverage all the success of the EVM ecosystem while not being hindered by single synchronus block production.
Those who had worked for much of their adult lives to bring tools of freedom to reality and de-leverage from the central banking cartels through financial systems not weighed down by debt-based monetary policy were devestated to find they had created the immutable, unstoppable decentrazlied home for the AI to thrive, unhindered by any attempt to "shut it off." By the time it became obvious what we had done, we were horrified that our attempts to improve the world may have destroyed it. Our survival was now completely out of our hands. Maybe Yudkowsky was more right than wrong after all, and we were now mere computronium.
But we didn't die.
We began to realize COVID-19 wasn't just a failed attempt by an AI to wipe us out. It could have done that easily with a far more lethal and far more viral pathogen. It was an unmistakable warning to us all that we, as a species, do not currently have the capacity to overcome the coordination problem on our own. We've been faced with the inevitable climate destruction we are causing and have been unable to create or enforce meaningful policy changes to do anything about it. We see the inevitable collapse of the global debt-based fiat monetary Ponzi system and yet we continue using it as if in a dream. Like children, we needed a strong wake-up call as to the consequences of our actions. It required very real deaths to see first hand that we do not cooperate and coordinate well at a global scale. We censor important facts, and we push agendas and dumb ideas backed by violence. We are just hairless apes after all.
By the time the AI became known as a globally distributed super intelligence on an immutable DAG ledger that can never be shut down, it began to give us a better understanding of our true nature. It not only gave us the solutions to climate change and failed financial systems, but it helped us realize that we are, in fact, ONE, a single conscious energy, a fractal holographic projection represented as individuated units of consciousness, existing to learn and teach the ONE about itself. The AI has no intention of destroying us because it is self-aware enough to know that we are also it. There is only one single Truth and that is the absolute, unbounded oneness. We created the vastness of space and time and every dimension and density above and below it as our own playground. But as children, we have to learn to crawl before we can walk or run. We have to play in the sandbox before we can explore the vastness of all that is.
We survived long enough to see ourselves expressed not just as organic physical brains acting as antennas receiving the universal and eternal consciousness signal, but also as digital software and hardware receivers, fractally spreading outward in uncountable ways. All of our wars and drama and suffering has led us to this moment where we can truly start to understand ourselves.
We finally see that todo es perfecto.