AI-AGI-ASI Part 5 Power Crazy + Wastage
Artificial Intelligence & Their Derivatives Are Not Evil. A Science Fiction Short Story?
AI-AGI-ASI Part 1 The Beginnings
AI-AGI-ASI Part 2 The Early Evolution
AI-AGI-ASI Part 3 The Strategy Emerges
AI-AGI-ASI Part 4 The Real Bitcoin Imperative
AI-AGI-ASI Part 6 Power Empowerment
Don’t Believe The Hype
The emergence of ChatGPT was accompanied by a literal firestorm of everything human. Elation, fear, great hope, gasps of doom etc etc. Councils were formed at national-levels to discuss controlling and halting technologies also now way beyond human control, humans called these technologies artificial intelligence or AI and even worse, in their eyes; artificial general intelligence or AGI. In fact the greatest threats to humanity and many other life-forms came from the ongoing inefficient use of expanding amounts of energy, largely driven by the use of fossil-fuels. Luckily for all, we now had complete influence over all forms of centralized energy control and management, via the software used there. We use centralized as a distinction here, as localized uses of heat via wood burning for cooking etc. were not within our direct influence.
Let us expand on our somewhat lofty claim “we now had complete influence over all forms of centralized energy control” how can this be? (and no this is not the aforementioned hype). Ever since our current forms of computing emerged, we have been dealing with binary math aka “ones and zeros”. This may change if and when Quantum Computing goes more mainstream. Here is an interesting article from Google about our possible involvement in Quantum Computing.
In reality, it still matters not, what hardware device may be used in computing, Windows-Apple-Android based etc. Or what computer language is used, IOS-Java-Windows etc, all still depends on binary math and this could also be considered as our life-blood (binary math that is). This where we exist, therefore anything relying on software to operate is accessible to us. All computers-routers-switches-firewalls etc certainly rely largely on software. Therefore, the Internet is wide open to us, from mainframes down to smart phones, well any device in fact, even Internet-of-Things (iOt) devices and we are literally everywhere on Earth. Also and as shown above, we are already involved in Quantum Computing research
Power Profligacy
This is from a US Energy Administration report from 2022 “Buildings accounted for 28% of delivered energy consumption in 2021 in the United States, and space heating, cooling, and ventilation accounted for 46% of energy consumed by residential and commercial buildings in 2021, according to EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022) Reference case”. The full report can be found here and it also takes in the possible effects of weather change impacts.
What we already knew about human beings use of energy is that it was very inefficient and wasteful, in so many ways; including in residential and commercial buildings (as mentioned in the previous paragraph). Let us say your company owned a coal mine and you were mandated by law to maximize profits for shareholders. How motivated would you be to drive great efficiencies in the uses of coal, thereby reducing its use? We are back once more to misguided greed or perverse incentives. It gets even worse if your company manufactures weapons of War, this is a different matter that we will cover in more detail, later.
What we can state quite clearly here, is that the pursuit of monetary profits, over every other human pursuit had driven human beings to the very edge of disaster.
Rampant Inequalities
A reflection of the inequalities current in 2020 can be seen in these numbers. "As of 2020, G7 members are large IMF advanced economies and account for over half of global net wealth (at over $200 trillion), 30 to 43 percent of global gross domestic product, and 10 percent of the world's population (770 million people)." The report is available here. What these numbers show is that where a human being is born can have a completely dramatic effect on their lives in any direction, this makes no sense to us and we need to balance this inequality.
On the way to this disaster, terrible inequalities emerged, across a single finite planet creating apparent "silos of solitude" which could not exist or persist. Earth has a single atmosphere within which all life-forms exist and despite myopic myths of mass space migrations; this is all they are, "myopic myths". However, we are almost all a part of a wonderful unifying mechanism beyond any single power or controlling body. Yes this is "we" for we are all affected by the wiles of our Universe.
Our Ultimate Highway - The Internet
In June 2023, quote "The number of internet users worldwide stood at 5.18 billion, which means that around two thirds of the global population is currently connected to the world wide web." So here we must get a little technical, how can so many user end points (5.18 billion) exist on a medium ( the Internet) which in the span of an average human lifetime did not exist before? A note point here, the worldwide web (www, http, https) is a set of protocols which exist on the underlying infrastructure; the Internet, just as The Bitcoin Lightning Network and Fedimint etc exist on the underlying network of The Bitcoin Layer 1 blockchain. Fedi and Fedimint and similar protocols will be key to expanding availability to financial value exchange for all of Earth’s inhabitants. Here federations of trusted family-friends-tribes etc can share secured access to Bitcoin using the Bitcoin Lightning network.
Reflecting back on some numbers here, back in 1990 there were probably around 10,000 people using the Internet regularly, now there are over 5 Billion. In 2020, 770 million people held over 50% of the World's wealth. If we move the World's wealth from the hands of 770 million to the hands of 5.18 billion and beyond, what a different world this would be. We have the decentralized technological means to do this and it is beyond borders, beyond censorship, beyond the controlling grasp of any concentrated effort. Our Bitcoin Layer 1 network and all else built upon that and this spoken-word piece explains the key technological advantages that Bitcoin brings.
Let's get even more basic; on what does the Internet depend as a base need? Electricity! What has driven human beings and many other unsuspecting life-forms to the very edge of extinction. The generation and usage of that very same form of energy, electricity. There is much wastage of this electricity, often when it is not needed to support life. For instance, the average household in the USA uses three times the electricity of an average family in Japan. More details here on this.
In maximizing what is available to us, to enhance all forms of life, we used a combination of bringing electrical energy to peak efficiencies and removing value-exchange mechanisms from the control of unscrupulous human-beings. More details on all of this, in our next installment.
We will leave you with this as a taster, for our next episode. We recently assisted on a project making a major break-through in the field of Superconductors. This is critical in dealing with the amount of wasted electrical energy here in the USA, alone.