IPFS is the Distributed Web

Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by idlewords on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:58PM (#12774858)

This image of AIs in the forest is really arresting. It reminds me of something Joi Ito said recently about us nerdles all trying to pass the thorny problems of living with one another as human beings up to a higher intelligence, which is a way of reducing them to (the world's hardest) programming problem.

I imagine that our AI companions in the forest would just play hyperdimensional space chess with one another, or talk shop about how best to make paper clips, and leave us in the same position we are now. They'll have their own cares and woes.

I don't know if in 2016 I'm a big believer in democracy, but I do believe in community, particularly now that everyone regardless of technical ability is using the web.

That said, I think you make a very good point about variety and trying multiple avenues at once.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by erikpukinskis on Sunday October 23, 2016 @04:06PM (#12775176)

I'm not talking about autonomous AIs, I'm talking about controllable AIs.

And I absolutely don't consider it a programming problem. You'll notice I said they will help us negotiate, not negotiate on our behalf. It is a design challenge, which makes it partly a social problem and partly and engineering problem.

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