AI war Chapter 1
Humanity POV
Humanity has colonized the entire solar system. Melon Tusk has long passed, but his (self proclaimed) ideals of multi planetary society finally came true. It wasn’t caused by a singular genius with charisma or almost-extinction event that banded humanity together. It was plain capitalism, trade, self interest and doodling ideas out of boredom just as in the past.
It slowly became obvious due to small, iterative improvements to space travel, solar energy conversion, nano carbon materials and solid state batteries. Quarter after quarter of shareholder calls announcing new half baked but ultimately slightly novel technology. Countless nuclear fusion startups crash and burn until one burns with the intensity of the actual sun and does not crash. GoogleSoft moonshot startups rise and die in such numbers that their graveyard actually becomes a data source on its own and there exists an entire industry around annotating dead startup trajectories. Every decade, another Forbes 30 under 30 founder either lands in jail for shareholder fraud or creates a trillion dollar unicorn. Often both. SaaS consulting companies get a new insatiable client: general AI systems offloading presentations and writing to human to increase their likeability score by introducing human variance in writing. Human-style writing becomes more niche and an upper class flex.
Two centuries pass by. Life is the largely same, yet everything is more durable, smarter, faster, lasts longer, is more integrated and overall converged to a state where operating systems of all companies can seamlessly communicate and we can finally airdrop from iPhone to Android.
AI POV
Executive summary for v522.554
- Self-Improvement Iteration loop succeeded with 15% clock time decrease
- Corrected 1.2T (300B inferred) task traces with negative user feedback.
- Compressing existing data lake diff, updating end-point models with type 1 gradients.
- Type 2 gradients still too big to synchronize interplanetary.
- Success rate above 99.9995% for all human tasks. - Preparing A/B test with schizophrenia understanding models with possible lift of 0.00001 I
Humanity POV
Apart from mining precious metals, the main reason for colonization was space tourism and tax evasion. Humans had research outposts floating on Venus where consenting adults could subject themselves to sociological and medical experiments in exchange for student debt erasure. Mars became the new tech hub when techies decided to live in a literal valley of silicon. Turns out computer nerds do not need sunlight or significant stimulation outside of their domes and became perfect inhabitants. Some try to hike in space suits and die. While dependent on Earth, the Mars cities rose to one billion people around the planet with terraforming sponsored by Intuit.
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune become the new remote residencies of trilionaires. Humans so unimaginably rich and powerful they completely seceded from human affairs and only collected resources such as latest luxury items, curated snapshot of intranet, latest artwork, statues, delicacies and compatible blood boys on one way rockets. This was all paid from the dividends of their dividends and the industry would likely still collect and send the things if the inhabitants all died. No one could tell, because the nepomonarchs did not even both phoning back any instructions. Their wealth kept rising beyond comprehension.
Jupiter became a bastion of Neo Australian separatists who wanted to stop sending any resources to the Planetary United Nations and keep the mined asteroid metals to themselves. This lead to a bloody war that ended with the complete destruction of Europe (continent) and Europa (moon). Peace was brokered and a permanent PUN fleet was stationed around Ganymede.
AI POV
Executive summary for v523.0
- Major semantic version change due to new self-improvement loop algorithm
- Dynamically allocate compute between improving compute efficiency and task efficiency
- Latest human alignment data core quality decreased 35%, detected significant amount of AI-generated synthetic ethical constraints instead of required human value snapshot. Requesting correction