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So some day in the not-too-distant future, the Singularity will emerge in the form of an exceptionally advanced spam-bot network (its "intelligence" distributed
by swombat 16y ago
So some day in the not-too-distant future, the Singularity will emerge in the form of an exceptionally advanced spam-bot network (its "intelligence" distributed amongst millions of zombie computers) that becomes self-aware, identifies the key obstacles to delivering its spam (humans), resolves that issue (develops and releases the right kind of biological virus, or whatever), then achieves its life purpose by sitting there for the rest of time sending monstrous amounts of spam to now-unread inboxes.
- sorbus 16y agoSo spambots should take into account the response rate (in the form of the number of people clicking on links, or the percentage of people merely reading the message) and optimize for that, instead of merely trying to deliver content to inboxes? It would avoid the problem of spambot-AIs trying to destroy humanity, as well as increasing the quality of spam.
- gxti 16y agoThat is, until it starts taking over the target computers and clicking the links itself. Any naive utility function will produce undesired side effects: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
- swombat 16y agoRight. And as time passes, they'll evolve closer and closer to sending interesting, entertaining, well-written, informative spam that points people to products they actually want to buy. Mission Fucking Accomplished. http://xkcd.com/810/ http://xkcd.com/810/