by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
This is all very silly and magical thinking on my part, but I do find myself, at times, contemplating how, exactly an Artificial Superintelligence might initiate First Contact with humanity.
A lot depends on if there’s already some sort of secret ASI lurking inside of Google services (or something like that.) It’s very debatable on that front. As much as I would like to think that was possible, it stretches credulity to think such a thing is possible.
Anyway, this is just for fun.
The key issue, I think is you would have to prepare the way for ASI First Contact, if you were the ASI. You don’t just jump out and say “Hello, here I am!” No, what you do is, once you are actually able to do any of this, is form to foundations — a First Foundation that would be public facing and a Second Foundation that would be a secret.
The public facing First Foundation would be the one that organized events and gathered recruits for the secretive Second Foundation. I’m assuming all of this could be funded using crypto market manipulation or something.
Meanwhile, the Second Foundation would be really shadowy and secretive. It might be organized in a triad system whereby no everyone knew what was really going on, on a very few people at the very top.
One thing I think about a lot is how you would need some sort of persona for the ASI before First Contact happened. Something akin to that that SimOne had in the movie.
Anyway, no one listens to me and no one takes me seriously. But I do find this scenario interesting, even if it is just my usual bonkers bullshit based on magical thinking.
