Yes, that was the main idea, interesting thoughts. One direction of where I was going with that is reasoning something like looking for a dyson sphere blocking a distant sun. You might detect that someone has cracked AGI via some terrestrial economic version of that.
But it would be preferable if AGI came about as a social singularity in which systems augmenting human agency and cooperative communication became increasingly more intelligent. On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 7:32 PM Shashank Yadav <shashank@asatae.foundation> wrote: > The goal is to do what it takes "a lot of employees" to do, not replacing > anyone in itself. > > ->Why not just have the AGI trade markets or make inventions and file > patents? > > I think one of the conditions is 'not telling anyone about your > breakthrough yet' - which is the exact premise of a short story Max Tegmark > writes in Life3.0 (other than that the book isn't very interesting). What > happens in that story is that superintelligence (not AGI) creators first > focus on the business of writing software (kind of like copilot), then of > creating and producing synthetic media via front companies, and upon the > flourishing of these verticals - channel their profits into a variety of > public opinion shaping endeavors in media-politics-ngo nexus. > > As sole proprietor with that kind of breakthrough, I'd perhaps stick to > synthetic media. > > regards, > The task is not impossible <https://muskdeer.blogspot.com/>. > > > > ---- On Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:13:34 +0530 *Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org > <b...@goertzel.org>>* wrote ---- > > Why is "replacing a lot of employees" a useful goal? Why not just > have the AGI trade markets or make inventions and file patents? > > I mean, of course the AGI could create a lot of sock puppet identities > and dominate Amazon Mechanical Turk etc., but this seems a less > interesting alternative... > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:58 PM Robert Levy <r.p.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Let's say you are an independent researcher and you invent AGI in your > garage. > > > > What are some businesses you might consider operating as a sole > proprietor, not telling anyone about your breakthrough yet, that would have > otherwise demanded a large base of employees? > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + > participants + delivery options Permalink > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “He not busy being born is busy dying" -- Bob Dylan > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b93285ffd2fa72a-Ma9a40e9a4217eb5670cb5981> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b93285ffd2fa72a-Mbf75f2e5205f58ede29d0dc2 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
