Raw LLM Responses

Hinton appeals to governments and other organisations, knowing that the regulating motivations for businesses are all wrong. Unfortunately the motivations for governments and other organisations are also wrong. The answer has to be something self-regulating … something like economy or ecology. Maybe Wikipedia gives a clue? The Wikipedian community is largely self-regulating and it involves humans and bots working together for the public good. True, a Wikipedia bot is way, way, dumber than a modern neural net … but we are only looking for the germ of an idea. The key to self-governance in Wikipedia is that reputation matters. Reputation is the currency of the community. And reputation is embedded in the architecture - it is an inescapable feature for both human and non-human contributions. There is also an echo here of the AI neural nets themselves: Reputation is encoded in the network of connections between contributors to the encyclopaedia. The Wikipedia social network encodes who each node talks with and how often. In a neural network this is an echo of the weight of each connection. Ok, store that idea and change frame: The new frame is the network of tiny messages, packets, that are passed between IP addresses using the packet switching protocols of the internet. This is our deepest, densest, most foundational digital network. It encodes who is speaking with whom and how often. Our reputations are stored in there - the reputations of the people and the reputations of the machines. But it’s hidden. For the moment it is hidden. What if we worked with the IETF to make a standard that would allow each entity to publish their recent IP correspondence? Each entity, human or non-human, would be saying, “This is who I talk to and how often. These connection make up my reputation.” The entity would also be saying, “Some of those entities ALSO publish their correspondence using this standard. If you don’t believe what I have published, go check with them. My correspondents are my referees.” I call this standard the Packet Graph. In a world where reputation is currency, entities will find that they are incentivised to publish their reputation using the Packet Graph standard. Of course those entities will also be incentivised to deceive, but any such deceptions will be detectable in the network. Poor behaviour can be punished by shunning - by other entities deciding to weaken or remove the connection. The system is self-regulating. I’m trying desperately to get an audience for this concept. Yell out if you want to talk more.