George Gilder
Crypto vs Google
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Computing and Life After Google and Big Data
Summary
In this episode I talk with George Gilder about Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data & The Rise of the Blockchain Economy and his newest book on Gaming AI.
We discuss blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and decentralized computing. We also discuss artificial intelligence, information theory, neuroscience, and the problems of materialism and closed systems.
Gilder argues that the Google system of the world with its focus on free services, centralized servers, and big data will be replaced by blockchain and decentralized computing that takes security, money, and privacy seriously.
We discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the Google System of the world, its materialist presuppositions, and its adherence to the Burning Man principles, and how these ideas influence Google’s visions of computing, economics, and artificial intelligence.
We discuss C.S. Pierce, Ray Kurzweil, Claude Shannon and information theory, and Kurt Godel’s critique of determinist systems—that mathematics and all logical system rely on propositions outside themselves. Gilder argues that many computer scientists have forgotten the intellectual origins of computer science and have erroneously identified objects with symbols, forgetting the need for an outside interpreter—the human mind.
We talk about his newest book Gaming AI and how to think clearly about Artificial Intelligence— Gilder argues that despite profound accomplishments in artificial intelligence with Chess, Go, and more, it is an error to think that computers can become conscious minds.
We also talk about neuroscience and its relationship to computer science and the circular error of envisioning the human mind as a computer and then thinking about computers based on this reductionist vision of the mind.
Resources
Wealth is Knowledge
Growth is Learning
Money is Time
Kurt Godel
Balaji Srnivasan on Cloud Cities
Google Principles: see below
Gilder does a comparison between the Google system of the world and the Crypto - Blockchain system of the World.
Here it is in Summary
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Google: Focus on User—give people free stuff
Cryptocosm: Focus on Security --- nothing is free
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Google: Do one thing really well—AI based answers
Cryptocosm: Create Secure foundations for customers do many things really well
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Google: Fast Human Scale over Gigahertz
Cryptocosm: Slower for each transaction, but more complete
Synchronize groundstate over system
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Google: Democracy on Web ---but Google runs it centralized —hierarchy
Cryptocosm: Majority Rule is a 51% attack Heterarchy – distributed power
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Google: Don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer
Cryptocosm: If your phone is smart it should repress ads E.G. Brave Browser Adds on smart phones Click .03%
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Google: You can make $ without doing evil
Cryptocosm: Money is good—it measures
Measuring stick –money is real
Money translates time into the economy
Efforts to falsify $ by generating money—by central banks
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Google: Always more information out there and we can get it by giving things away for free
Cryptocosm: Information should be owned by their creators not by their distributors—nothing is ultimately free. We respect the proof of work of our customers
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Google: Need for information crosses all borders
Cryptocosm: Respects the borders of your computer security is the property of the user and the device not the network
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Google: Serious without suit — but you better wear denim and give user name password, SSN Mothers maiden name, and more in order to function in top down internet
Cryptocosm: Conduct transactions without giving personal data to insecure web
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Google: Great isn’t good enough---we are casually, cosmically great
Cryptocosm: We provide an architecture of security and time stamped factuality which enables our customers to be great.