Timeline for Would this be a plausible way of safeguarding against an AI whilst being conducive to a Cassette Futurism aesthetic?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
10 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2022 at 14:29 | vote | accept | AncientSwordRage | ||
| Jul 15, 2021 at 17:44 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @ClockworkMuse: Trouble then is maintaining the security. One breach in a low tech supply chain may be of very limited consequence, while an AGI breaching a high tech chain in one spot could compromise the entire thing and you effectively need to start again. I’d expect a lot of odd anachronisms caused by various ever-changing threat factors too. Supercomputers using easily human-verifiable punch cards to communicate instructions, that kind of thing. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | Clockwork-Muse | @JoeBloggs - Sure, but I expect that eventually you'd get back to the more "high tech" stuff once you have secured your supply chain (and faster than it took people to get there the first time). Also, keyboard bugs can be hard to detect. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 9:18 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @Clockwork-Muse: Kinda like if you're worried there might be built in backdoors in hardware you haven't produced/can't maintain/verify yourself. It's easy to double check there's no wireless capacity secretly built into a typewriter produced by a third party. It is not easy to double check the same for a high-tech network switch. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 4:23 | comment | added | Clockwork-Muse | Note that the BSG example, along with similar tropes in fiction, completely ignore how computers actually work, and are secured. For instance, there's no reason an AI can't break into a less powerful computer using the same interface as a more powerful one, and simply networking two computers (especially with a hardline) does not make them hackable from somebody with no access to the network. Instead of making it "harder" for the AI, you might instead be limited to lower tech because you're attempting to set up an independent supply chain, something the AI can't control. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 16:27 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | Re: BSG, plotting a jump on one computer and manually entering it on another doesn't save them from anything unless they're able to manually evaluate everything on the plotted course data down to the last digit to confirm no extraneous data is being encoded by a hidden AI. At that point they might as well be doing everything manually, a la Dune and its mentats. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 15:54 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | Wow I had no idea of such a precedent in fiction! Great find! | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 15:46 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 304 characters in body
|
| Jul 13, 2021 at 15:32 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 343 characters in body
|
| Jul 13, 2021 at 15:23 | history | answered | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |