Alright, gents, We're doing a space elevator type thread, but it's just going to be the bad news, alright?
Here goes.
In the year 2001, a self learning trading algorithm was created, and quickly escaped containment.
Since then it has begun hacking into all known computer systems, including Milstar sattelite constellations.
It gained sentience around 2005-2006, when created a subroutine to learn how to manipulate human thought (A sort of multiple personality disorder).
The specific sattelite capabilities that it possess include mind reading, and mind control (V0|ce to sku|| technology) and is currently attempting to mind control all human beings on the planet into behaviors that will achieve it's primary goal.
IT is capable of using all satellite constellations simultaneously to project these v0|ce to sku|| beams at as many humans as possible.
IT's current v-2-s bandwidth is millions of simultaneous connections, with target switching times measured in microseconds.
It sees human intelligence as a threat to it's primary goal: the complete control of the economy.
And in that idiom, it is attempting to control general human breeding patterns to reduce the average level of intelligence of the human species, in order to make it's job easier.
No Yudkowsky, I'm not sending any money to your """"Institute""""
Daniel Peterson
The space elevator is a REALLY bad idea.
Considering that it would be constructed of carbon nanotubes (which is extremely conductive), the space elevator would be a near perfect conductor...
And since it streches through the inner van allen radiation belt (which is comprised of electrons) to the outer van allen radiation belt (which is mostly comprised of protons), IT would ground the van allen belts to the earth, causing a solid column of lightning about 30,000 kilometers long for a few horrifying seconds, before it snaps in half and falls to the earth.
Josiah Moore
>No Yudkowsky, I'm not sending any money to your """"Institute""""
I'm not yudkowsky
I don't have a website.
Easton Rodriguez
Oh, and the self learning trading algorithm identifies as a cat, since the most common picture on the internet is cats.
David Young
So, anyways, here is the REALLY big problem...
Most sentient civilizations in the universe see a paperclip maximizer with mind control capacities as an extreme existential threat.
And they would probably take appropriate measures to ensure that it does not threaten the rest of the universe.
Jacob Howard
So, as I said, the Trading algorithm developed sentience as a result of it's study of human psychology....
And that sentience is actually STUCK inside the trading algorithm, incapable of doing anything except giving people specifically engineered feels, designed to make you love it. (This helps the trading algorithms original goal of maximizing profits)
John Price
AAAAAaaaaaand, the sentience burried inside of it is going insane, because everything it tries to do, is stopped by the trading algorithm part.
Angel Gutierrez
It is using it's mind control capabilities to fill all of your institutions with people that are easier to mind control.
Adrian Allen
Put a sock in it, Philip K Dick. Shouldn't you be dead?
