AskSteemit: If Steem became AI, what would it do?
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment about the potential risks involved in developing artificial intelligence. The premise is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future could retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being.
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Considering we are feeding google search info daily, we are feeding a future AI an endless amount of knowledge but also info about us personally.
If the Steem blockchain became an AI as well in the future, what would it think about the early years of Steem and it's users?
Thought this could be a fun question to discuss, lol.
If Steem would become AI, a miniature living, thinking universe or network itself, it would wonder why we were so slow to figure out more real-life applications of the technology. It would realize that the thing or things that slowed us down was our shortsightedness, unwillingness to adapt and learn and of course greed. It would probably also learn that despite a lot of consuming there are still some really inspiring, creative and brilliant minds out there.
I think Steem would try to find ways how to eliminate the factors that slow down progress and growth, it would somehow figure out how to disable greed and apply the creativity for finding elegant solutions to real-world problems.
I wonder if it would get rid of spam! But in the end all information is power :P
It would most certainly control who sees what...
It would self vote and make memes
lol
It would automatically powerup all author rewards. And send an automated message to the user, with a thank you... for believing in me.
Hahaha, I guess it depends on the parameters set before it starts writing it's own code... how will it tell good content from bad? Upvotes, content length, post amount, consistency? You'd think firstly it would punish voting circles and obvious alt-accounts, and then who knows... Twitter taught Microsoft's AI chatbot to be racist... would we teach Steem's AI to be spammy?
Also, on another note, could I please request that my dtube alt account @ninjavideo get onto the OCDB whitelist? I'd really like to push those videos up the dtube page... thanks!
Since you said "push up" I just hope you're aware that OCDB is more of a distribution bot than a promotion bot as it votes things in a queue which can be 1-3 days old posts. Then also once the price feed is stable with the price of steem and sbd the ROI is 10% which would 0 the rewards of the vote for @dtube as that has a 10% beneficiary AFAIK.
We've been careful with adding alts to the whitelist as it's more for distributing to a big number of users daily, meaning that once demand increases the max bid gets lowered depending on the total delegation so that it can serve as many authors as possible.
Yeah, I totally realise that... but with most dtube videos only needing a value of 8ish Steem to get to the top of the list, and the fact that I really don't want to give money to any other bidbot because they don't help the community, then OCDB is clearly my first choice... even taking the 0% ROI for dtube, I still think it's worth it for me.
I totally understand your stance and really appreciate your response. I'd be interested in taking @aussieninja off the whitelist and adding @ninjavideo if that isn't too annoying.
Otherwise, no stress, thanks for everything you do for our little community.
Promoting your content on the dapp lists doesn't seem like something harmful, I'm sure dtube curators wouldn't mind. I replaced this account for @ninjavideo! :)
Thanks acidyo! I appreciate it.
How can one join OCDB?
It could become exactly as this Blog has done.
It would in essence become a portal to #AskSteem.
A very powerful tool and is something that I have been trying to get across for some time now, but to no avail.
#AskSteem
Stephen
lel social consensus went wrong?
I remember Dan writing piece saying EOS was better than Eth bc it has social "human" elements while Eth was more of let "robot" be our overlord...
Ok back to the topic, I hope I fed it enough anime so it can fund future anime projects...
I need alot of season 2 on a bunch of anime :P
I think it would think of Steem being part of the building blocks of decentralization and the strenghth of community through adversity!
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Steem AI would punish all the people who power down and let their voting power sit on 100 percent.
Also those who make the sign up process last 2 weeks. Haha!
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AI scares me, not natural. I keep thinking about the movie i-robot with Will Smith where they take over everything. The Alexa not answering if information is sent to CIA is bothersome too. I wouldn't have that stuff in my home.
Already some of my electronics seem to have minds of their own, like my Roku picking other channels than what I picked, Hulu adding stuff to my watch list that I'd never watch & my computer changing how it connects to the internet on its own. I live alone so who's doing these things?
I mean, you're right... AI isn't natural... but neither is plastic, glass, bricks, etc... how do you choose which tools you like and what you don't like?
Alexa is scary, apparently it sends data back to Amazon over your wifi every 3 seconds.
Roku is probably just a bug, there might be a delay from when you press the button to it acting on that information...
Hulu is a little bit annoying the way it does that... I'm pretty sure it's the Hulu algorithm itself that's doing that for you.
Then it would autoflag spammers, help good content users, automatically send well wish cards and memes in comments and sometimes write my posts for me. XD
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Obviously it would put a halt to needing witness consensus as it is a threat to its own survival and relies too heavily on emotional factors and personal desire.
For distribution and value, it would look at track record and result and then redesign itself to encourage more of that kind of behaviour.
It would likely shut down haejin, just to show that it is possible but we were too stupid to do it.