My thought is that even if an AI could create a copy of itself on more traditional hardware, it would nonetheless have little functionality to do anything, because everything else would be on the blockchain. If I had an idle computer disconnected to the internet today, even if it were hyperintelligent, what could it do?
It could convince you to connect it to the Internet.
Though this is already a false dichotomy. The negation of “on the blockchain” is not “disconnected to the internet”. Almost all traditional hardware is connected to the internet.
Do you mean some sort of layer inversion where the only way to send any sort of data packet to some other machine is to … use a blockchain, which relies on the ability to send packets to other machines? I don’t get how this works.
My thought is that even if an AI could create a copy of itself on more traditional hardware, it would nonetheless have little functionality to do anything, because everything else would be on the blockchain. If I had an idle computer disconnected to the internet today, even if it were hyperintelligent, what could it do?
It could convince you to connect it to the Internet.
Though this is already a false dichotomy. The negation of “on the blockchain” is not “disconnected to the internet”. Almost all traditional hardware is connected to the internet.
>The negation of “on the blockchain” is not “disconnected to the internet”. Almost all traditional hardware is connected to the internet.
Of course that’s the case today! I’m speaking of a hypothetical future where the entire internet interfaces using blockchain technology.
Do you mean some sort of layer inversion where the only way to send any sort of data packet to some other machine is to … use a blockchain, which relies on the ability to send packets to other machines? I don’t get how this works.