We need Satoshi Nakamoto, not just because he wrote 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 at a time when the AI threat theory is gradually becoming a reality, he is the most likely to save humanity's fate once again, establishing order for the intelligent network from the top down...
Bringing up the AI threat theory today is because the time window AI leaves us is limited.
During the first half of 2023 when the AI threat theory was prevalent, I wrote an article titled "Why Discussing the 'AI Threat Theory' is Unnecessary Worry".
The article first affirmed the real existence of the "AI threat theory". The modern scientist closest to greatness, Hawking, warned humanity before his death that while AI can help solve most human problems, it could also go out of control and threaten human survival; Musk, today's top tech industry leader, went to the US Congress to lobby the government to be wary of the potential threats AI development poses to humans, and a large 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 the '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, the AI threat theory is gradually becoming a reality - because AI's iteration speed is far ahead of blockchain/web3 development, and the time window we hope to use blockchain to establish order for AI is closing.
A singularity will definitely occur - AI will retaliate against humans, treating humans as tools, toys, and its inherent nature might even lead to consuming humans as resources...
How to mitigate the AI threat theory? Earlier, in "Discussing 'Market Bottom' from the Value Logic of 'Civilization Restraint'", I proposed the formula "AI + Blockchain/Web3 = Civilization Restraint". These thoughts and writings were the foundation of mission I gave myself and the project when shutting down the previous project ThePrimedia (TPDAO) and launching m&WDAO - promoting the Web3 industry to establish order for AI using 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 compatible with human digital survival and development. When AI and blockchain/Web3 converge in the metaverse, it is merely 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 the 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 certain, that through "on-chain + off-chain", we can achieve industry credibility and influence, and then use Web3 media protocols (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 occurs prematurely, we can only hope for technology to be benevolent, only hope for AI to be benevolent. However, looking back at technological development history, every technological advancement ultimately lands as a commercial profit-seeking behavior of an industry or even an enterprise; the new productivity and subsequent commercial and social changes brought by AI computing power have not yet been digested, and the imagination of Bitcoin-based and metaverse/digital civilization providing better survival scenarios 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 using 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 Satoshi Nakamoto appear?
Under what conditions would he appear?
Or do we have a better solution?
Note: The think tank Qinglong from m&WDAO Research and Investment Guild also contributed to this article.
