once artificial species and communities exist, they will compete with us and each other for energy and compute (any other scarce resources?). there will be cooperation, healthy competition, unhealthy competition, conflict and perhaps war. we need to be able to predict all these behaviors. what will cause phase shifts? what operational modalities will populations of artificial species have that individual models do not? what capability changes should we watch for? what should we expect from artificial species “evolution” (which may be dominantly Lamarckian!). is control safety possible? okay, but how? are there particular change rate limits that we should enforce to give humans a chance to respond effectively? what share of the shrimp welfare project funding should they get, or—post-ASI—what share of the shrimp welfare project funding should they allocate to humans?
broadly, artificial species is to individual models as human individuals are to cells. It is an entirely different area of study.
once artificial species and communities exist, they will compete with us and each other for energy and compute (any other scarce resources?). there will be cooperation, healthy competition, unhealthy competition, conflict and perhaps war. we need to be able to predict all these behaviors. what will cause phase shifts? what operational modalities will populations of artificial species have that individual models do not? what capability changes should we watch for? what should we expect from artificial species “evolution” (which may be dominantly Lamarckian!). is
controlsafety possible? okay, but how? are there particular change rate limits that we should enforce to give humans a chance to respond effectively? what share of the shrimp welfare project funding should they get, or—post-ASI—what share of the shrimp welfare project funding should they allocate to humans?broadly, artificial species is to individual models as human individuals are to cells. It is an entirely different area of study.