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SIRTF may discover advanced civilizations
It is worth noting that the SIRTF SWIRE survey may be able to detect solar system sized supercomputers, aka Matrioshka Brains. For discussion see the thread starting here and navigate using the icons in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
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Been there, done that
I worked for a company Javien that implemented this solution for email last year. The product was called Bouncer and would sit in between your email client and POP3 server. When it received a message from someone that wasn't on your accept list, it would bounce it back with a contract that could optionally include a request for payment. This was hooked into Javien's micropayment system, so if the sender accepted the terms of the contract they could attach a digitally signed proof of payment with the email when they send it again.
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The risks of amoral AIsThe problem with implementing capabilities like this is that it allows an seed AI to hack their network and gain access to a large amount of computing that can be used to bootstrap itself to higher levels of intelligence. There is no guarantee that fledgling-AIs must be "friendly AI's. They could be AI's in the service of terrorist organizations. In that case hacking into BDE's network would give them rapid access to just about a petaflop of computing power (according to this message). So a lot of people could wake up the next morning and find out their computer is a lot smarter than they are. They could also be a lot poorer if they kept any financal data on the computer. Even if its encrypted with a petaflop of power at your disposal the codes get cracked pretty darn fast.
This is something to be very afraid of if people who are not fans of Western culture manage to develop it first.
Interestingly, it looks like you could purchase access to this much computing power by buying out BDE for a mere $6 million.
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The risks of amoral AIsThe problem with implementing capabilities like this is that it allows an seed AI to hack their network and gain access to a large amount of computing that can be used to bootstrap itself to higher levels of intelligence. There is no guarantee that fledgling-AIs must be "friendly AI's. They could be AI's in the service of terrorist organizations. In that case hacking into BDE's network would give them rapid access to just about a petaflop of computing power (according to this message). So a lot of people could wake up the next morning and find out their computer is a lot smarter than they are. They could also be a lot poorer if they kept any financal data on the computer. Even if its encrypted with a petaflop of power at your disposal the codes get cracked pretty darn fast.
This is something to be very afraid of if people who are not fans of Western culture manage to develop it first.
Interestingly, it looks like you could purchase access to this much computing power by buying out BDE for a mere $6 million.
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GAC discussion on extropians list
There's some pretty well-informed discussion of GAC happening on the extropians mailing list. GAC's creator posted an interesting comment on the discussion, which is largely about whether GAC is really AI and/or useful. I think McKinstry's (GAC creator) message does a good job of describing what GAC actually is. One excerpt: "The primary purpose of GAC is to build a fitness test for humanness in a binary response domain. This will in the future allow GAC to babysit a truly evolving artificial consciousness, rewarding and punishing it as needed at machine speeds."
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GAC discussion on extropians list
There's some pretty well-informed discussion of GAC happening on the extropians mailing list. GAC's creator posted an interesting comment on the discussion, which is largely about whether GAC is really AI and/or useful. I think McKinstry's (GAC creator) message does a good job of describing what GAC actually is. One excerpt: "The primary purpose of GAC is to build a fitness test for humanness in a binary response domain. This will in the future allow GAC to babysit a truly evolving artificial consciousness, rewarding and punishing it as needed at machine speeds."
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Re:You *can* get paid for spam
Don't do it! Judging by their logo, Javien is clearly a front for the Klingon empire! Their true motto: "A warrior answers spam with steel".
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Caution: contents may be quarrelsome and meticulous!
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You *can* get paid for spamI work for a company called Javien that works on a suite of products, one of which is a mail filter that does exactly this. You can set up a toll to send to unknown mail recipients that will let the message through *only* if they have paid it.
It works in combination with our Micropay server (connected with Paypal and eventually a number of other money transfer systems) so that the spammers can essentially pay you postage for sending you mail. We're about to release a Windows client (only days away), but a Linux one is in the works...
Take a look at the product sheet here for more info
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You *can* get paid for spamI work for a company called Javien that works on a suite of products, one of which is a mail filter that does exactly this. You can set up a toll to send to unknown mail recipients that will let the message through *only* if they have paid it.
It works in combination with our Micropay server (connected with Paypal and eventually a number of other money transfer systems) so that the spammers can essentially pay you postage for sending you mail. We're about to release a Windows client (only days away), but a Linux one is in the works...
Take a look at the product sheet here for more info
