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2024-11-17 06:02:33
**From Wealth Protection to Civilization Guardian, Bitcoin's Mechanical Consensus Provides the Ultimate Shield in the Artificial Intelligence Era**
#### Gavin, BeeGee (Core Builders of Super Bitcoin & BEVM)
#### November 15, 2024
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**The Acceleration of Technology and Potential Threats: Hawking, Wiener, and Present Challenges**
Humanity has entered the era of artificial intelligence, and with rapid technological advancements, we are facing unprecedented complexity and uncertainty. The swift progress of technology not only alters social structures but also introduces numerous potential threats, especially in the realm of artificial intelligence.
Scientists like Stephen Hawking have long warned about the potential dangers of this trajectory. Hawking believed that the unbridled development of artificial intelligence could threaten human existence. He pointed out, "We may face various risks brought about by the rise of artificial intelligence in the near future." Similarly, Norbert Wiener, one of the founding fathers of cybernetics, cautioned about the harm of uncontrolled technology to human civilization, particularly during the implementation of automation and adaptive systems. In his book Cybernetics, Wiener mentioned, "Machines created by humans, if not properly controlled, may ultimately destroy our own civilization."
In recent years, with the rapid development of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) technology, the risk of technology spiraling out of control has become even more pronounced. Elon Musk has expressed deep concern over this, publicly stating that AGI could pose an existential threat to humanity. Consequently, he founded xAI, dedicated to developing safe and beneficial AGI for humankind. Additionally, Yuval Noah Harari, in his book The Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to the AI Era, mentioned that artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool but possesses autonomous decision-making capabilities. This means AI may no longer heed human commands, thereby disrupting social order.
These warnings clearly indicate that ensuring technological progress serves humanity—and preventing it from threatening human survival—has become a pressing and significant issue of our time.
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**The Limits of the Human Brain and the Collapse of Social Consensus**
Turning our attention back to humanity, the explosive growth of information poses a severe challenge to the processing capacity of the human brain. The biological evolution of the human brain lags far behind the developmental speed of silicon-based life forms. As a species, humanity will face competition with an "artificial intelligence species."
In the past, humans solved most complex problems through "social consensus." However, in the information age, traditional consensus mechanisms are evidently unable to cope with the increasing complexity. The exponential growth of information overwhelms our traditional ways of thinking; society is rapidly changing, yet our thinking and decision-making processes are increasingly lagging, leading to the gradual ineffectiveness of conventional consensus methods.
James Rickards, in MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy, proposes that cybernetics is a crucial tool to address this challenge. He believes that the accelerated reliance on technology for decision-making, especially in AI, will trigger split-second reactions, potentially leading to cascading collapses in financial systems and even society. He further points out that "cybernetics," derived from the Greek word "kybernētēs" (helmsman), refers to a way of continuously adjusting and optimizing system responses. It advocates guiding system operations through precise feedback mechanisms rather than taking overly drastic countermeasures.
In the era of artificial intelligence, solely relying on traditional "social consensus" can no longer address these complex and rapidly evolving challenges. We urgently need a new, more effective mechanism to navigate the constantly shifting technological landscape and societal demands.
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**Mechanical Consensus: The Key to Addressing Complex Challenges**
In this context, mechanical consensus emerges as an effective solution to current technological challenges, serving as a new form of self-organizing and decentralized consensus. Unlike traditional social consensus, which relies on human decision-making, mechanical consensus can self-regulate and reach agreements without human intervention through decentralized automated processes. As Wiener emphasized in his cybernetics, mechanical consensus optimizes systems via feedback mechanisms, ensuring stability and security even as information continues to proliferate.
The Bitcoin network is one of the most successful examples of mechanical consensus. Bitcoin establishes a stable network without external intervention through miners' computational competition and economic incentives. In the Bitcoin network, miners participate in hash rate competitions to provide security and decentralized consensus, while Bitcoin's design ensures fairness and immutability throughout this process. This mechanism not only safeguards digital assets but also introduces a new governance model suited for the information age.
The power of mechanical consensus lies in its ability to operate automatically according to predefined rules without centralized control, offering solutions to complex societal problems. It demonstrates how technology can transcend mere wealth protection, shifting towards broader safeguards for human life and civilization.
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**Bitcoin: From Crypto Asset to Civilization's Mechanical Guardian**
Bitcoin is not just a cryptocurrency; it embodies the core principles of mechanical consensus. Satoshi Nakamoto's original intent in designing Bitcoin was to establish a self-adaptive, growth-oriented network that doesn't require trust in third parties—a concept realized through Bitcoin's consensus mechanism.
At the heart of Bitcoin's consensus mechanism is an endless competition of computational power. Miners continually invest hash power to earn Bitcoin rewards, fueling the network's continuous growth and self-reinforcement. This self-reinforcing mechanism not only enhances the security and stability of the Bitcoin network but also bolsters its resilience against external attacks. Through this positive feedback loop, the Bitcoin network has expanded exponentially, with its market capitalization growing from zero in 2009 to over $1.8 trillion today, underscoring the success of mechanical consensus as manifested in "digital gold."
However, the mechanical consensus represented by Bitcoin isn't limited to protecting digital assets; it offers a new solution for humanity to navigate the complexities of the information age.
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**Super Bitcoin: The Innovator Safeguarding Humanity's Future**
Building on this foundation, Super Bitcoin emerges to further transcend the limitations of the original Bitcoin network.
Through a five-layer architectural design, Super Bitcoin not only inherits the security of the Bitcoin network but also extends beyond Bitcoin's basic transaction functionality, bringing richer expansion capabilities to the network. Super Bitcoin integrates technologies such as the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, the Lightning Network, and Taproot Consensus, forming a more efficient and flexible blockchain system.
This new architecture positions Super Bitcoin not merely as a tool for protecting digital assets but as a platform capable of providing technological governance for human society. By leveraging decentralized and automated mechanical consensus, Super Bitcoin can promote technological advancement while mitigating risks, safeguarding human civilization from potential technological threats. It offers a secure, shared infrastructure for protocols and applications and continually expands its ecosystem to facilitate the achievement of broader human objectives.
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**Conclusion: Each Bitcoin Is a Guardian of Humanity's Future**
Bitcoin (BTC) has a total fixed supply of 21 million units, while the global population exceeds 8.2 billion. Simple math shows that, on average, every 400 people share one BTC. From an asset perspective, this highlights Bitcoin's scarcity and value. However, from the standpoint of human life safety, each Bitcoin effectively safeguards 400 lives.
The true value of cryptocurrency lies not merely in its representation of wealth but in the self-adaptive mechanical consensus that underpins it. Each of the 21 million Bitcoins carries the responsibility of protecting life. Through mechanical consensus, we have the opportunity to establish a more robust societal agreement in an era of information overload and rapid technological advancement. This can help humanity confront the intricate challenges posed by technology—especially those arising from artificial intelligence—and ensure the sustainable development of civilization and life.