#ai #intelligence #information # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # [[Information]]al consensus in the decentralised future of [[Artificial intelligence|intelligence]] #to-digest If [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] keeps generating the world, we might not distinguish anymore the true from the false. >But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought >~ [[George Orwell]] If GPT4 propagate on [[The Internet]] pair of a tree image with caption "this is a cat", with variants, maybe some people will start believing a tree is a cat. Human culture reach consensus on a [[The Map is not the Territory|map of the territory]], just as our mind is full of maps that agree on things. >The cortical columns, in their world-modeling activities, work semiautonomously. What “we” perceive is a kind of democratic **consensus** from among them. >~ [[Jeff Hawkins]] How do we ensure [[Information|information]]al consensus? The [[Blockchain]] is used to ensure unlimited scale decentralized consensus, there is no centralized authority, so we need to use it to agree that a tree looks like this ![[DALL·E 2022-06-16 13.41.25 - A tree imagined by a human in a hyper-realistic way.png]] Well, technically, this is generated by [[DALL-E]], you got what I mean. (PS: don't get fooled by the data, one sample does not represent the whole distribution) In the end I changed my mind on this, we don't need the [[Blockchain]], just [[Information|information]] about the past (archive.org), unless someone destroy it ([[George Orwell]]'s' 1984 totalitarian party). See [[AI generated information is not necessarily evil]]. ## Google Search rank is humanity's informational consensus If you type "cat" on Google Search, the top results will represent humanity's informational consensus. If you type "is broccoli healthy?", you'll see that most people agree that broccoli is healthy for humans. Consensus does not mean [[Truth|truth]] though, for example: ![[Screenshot 2022-06-23 at 13.17.37.png]] Though, the correlation between [[Cholesterol|cholesterol]] and heart disease is questioned by people such as [[Malcolm Kendrick]], just as we believe smoking was healthy 50 years ago. [[Epistemic arrogance|Dogmatism is dangerous]] In other words, [[Do not rely on authority|do not rely on authority]]