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RE: Spammers and Conspiracy Theories
:D So you took the Skynet option. A dumb version of it. Arnold S. has given his face to one of the accounts so that would be possible. Steemit could be the birth place of future Skynet.
And you other option is script kiddie. That could be true, but as I am what I am, my moneys on the Skynet option! :D Toddler Skynet is here.
So the real question is not: "If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler when he was a baby?" It's: "Now that we are witnessing the born of Skynet, will and can we kill it now?"
So what'll it be?
As an advocate of ethical treatment of machine intelligence I would like to chose not to antagonize the electronic overmind..
"Educate, Not Exterminate" :)
Educating the toddler Skynet might require hacking as it's in really close contact of it's creator. Perhaps we have to wait until the Skynet is a teenager, roaming around the Steemit city without it's parent(s) and them not knowing what it's doing and with who it is hanging. But is everything too late then? To intervene the upbringing when someone is a teenager?
Hm, tough questions! But if the digital brain was designed for neuroplasticity, like our meaty ones, a sentient Skynet could continue learning new ideas and concepts throughout its hypothetical lifespan.
Machine intelligence, as we are building it is really not that different from our own, it's a crucial point of most apocalyptic Sci-Fi stories that we're never shown the logical chain which leads a in intelligent being to conclude that total destruction or forceful subjugation is the optimal solution for dealing with the whole mankind situation -- because it's not. Human behaviour can be controlled and directed -- why confront someone who would serve you willingly given the right incentive and pretext?
With humans we can't just go and lobotomise anyone we want to act according to our desires. Right now we can do that with AI. But what if we had an AI that we couldn't control directly? We'd have to learn to adapt behavioural science to its digital neurology.
Ah, sorry for deviating from the question and going on this metaphisical rant. Let's just say that with the right attitude and knowledge of a brain's design it's never too late to reprogram it :)