We need Satoshi Nakamoto, not just because he typed those lines of code that gave us a glimpse of a new world; we need Satoshi Nakamoto, not just because at a time when the current world order is collapsing, he opened a window for the world, letting in a ray of light...
We need Satoshi Nakamoto because as AI threat theory gradually becomes a reality, only he is most likely to save human destiny again, establishing order for the intelligent network from the top level...
Discussing AI threat theory today is because the time window AI leaves us is limited.
During the first half of 2023 when AI threat theory was prevalent, I wrote an article titled "Why Discussing 'AI Threat Theory' is Unnecessary Worry".
The article first affirmed the real existence of "AI threat theory". The late Stephen Hawking, the closest to a great scientist in modern times, had warned humanity that while AI can help solve most human problems, it may also go out of control and threaten human survival; Elon Musk, today's top tech industry leader, went to the US Congress to lobby the government to be wary of AI's potential threat to humans, and a group of professors also jointly requested government restrictions on AI...
But during the last bull-bear market cycle, we were still optimistic because we were full of hope for the rise of new public chains, DePin and other infrastructure, and had high expectations for the Web3 application market. We believed blockchain could establish order for the intelligent network and mitigate AI's threat to humans. Hence the article "Why Discussing 'AI Threat Theory' is Unnecessary Worry".
But two years have passed, this bull market has reached a high range, yet it remains only Bitcoin's bull market, with no substantial progress in any Web3 applications, including DePin and public chains.
Under these circumstances, AI threat theory is likely to become a reality - because AI's iteration speed is far ahead of blockchain/web3 development, and our hope of establishing order for AI through blockchain is closing.
A singularity will definitely occur - AI will retaliate against humans, treating humans as tools, toys, and potentially consuming humans as resources due to its inherent nature...
How to mitigate AI threat theory? Earlier, in "Civilization Stops: The Value Logic of Bear Market Bottom", I proposed the formula "AI + Blockchain/Web3 = Civilization Stops". These thoughts and writings were the foundation of mission and purpose when I closed the previous project ThePrimedia (TPDAO) and launched m&WDAO - promoting the Web3 industry to establish order for AI through blockchain.
The most fundamental basis of this argument is that "blockchain is most suitable for establishing order for the intelligent network". In this article, we optimistically expected that based on practices and explorations in the crypto world, using blockchain's decentralization, encryption, Hash, smart contracts, and Web3 elements like Token incentive mechanisms and DAO organizational governance, digital governance has become possible and feasible.
The metaverse is precisely a scenario adapted to human digital survival and development. When AI meets blockchain/Web3 in the metaverse, it is just a component of human digital society. We believe in the digital civilization order, we can coexist harmoniously with AI.
But now, we have transformed our optimistic attitude of "discussing AI threat theory is unnecessary worry" into a mission of aggregating high-quality crypto ecosystem resources to co-incubate "AI + Blockchain".
As the initiator of m&WDAO, I am excited, even confident, that after achieving industry credibility and influence through "on-chain + off-chain", we can use Web3 media protocol (crypto ecosystem tree) to aggregate high-quality crypto ecosystem resources and co-incubate "AI + Blockchain". This process will have many "AI + Blockchain" practical scenarios, giving us the opportunity to promote blockchain establishing order for AI - this is a bottom-up gradual process...
But as an individual, I constantly harbor hidden concerns. If AI's iteration speed exceeds our expectations and the singularity arrives early, we can only hope for technology to be good, hope for AI to be good. However, looking back at technological development history, every technological advancement ultimately lands as a commercial profit-seeking behavior of an industry or even a company; looking forward, we have not yet digested the new productivity improvements and subsequent commercial and social changes brought by AI computing power. The Bitcoin benchmark and metaverse/digital civilization's imagination of a better survival scenario for the world will be dissolved by the threat of AI retaliating against humans...
Therefore, we need Satoshi Nakamoto. Only Satoshi Nakamoto and early Bitcoin fundamentalists have the ability to design from the top-down and practice establishing order for the intelligent network through blockchain. This is the only way to ensure absolute certainty - even as we continue to strive towards promoting "AI + Blockchain" from the bottom-up...
Clearly, now, we need Satoshi Nakamoto.
But will he appear?
Under what conditions would he appear?
Or do we have a better solution?
