Why is Bitcoin the last line of defense against AI?

As soon as the Zhongshan Park in Beijing enters the gate, it passes through the pavilion of the dome. There is a matching corner in the back. About a few hundred aunts and aunts who are anxious about their children’s marriage are showing their children’s conditions like a stall to find the right son-in-law. Daughter-in-law.

In fact, you should not think that the men and women here are not found because of poor conditions. On the contrary, there are excellent talents such as “Dr. Dr. US” and “Alibaba Senior Data Analyst”. I don’t know where to go compared to the ordinary talent market.

Therefore, even if you write a very glorious resume for your children, it rarely attracts a lot of attention.

However, this Saturday I strolled in Zhongshan Park, but found that there was a three-tiered three-story outside the front floor of a grandfather. I was curious and went forward to see where the uncle's children are.

I squeezed in front of me and saw a blank sheet of paper in front of the uncle, which wrote ten characters:

My son has a hundred bitcoins.

First, 2017, the year of Bitcoin

The above story is of course a paragraph, but Bitcoin is undoubtedly the hottest thing this year. Some people even created a word for those who don't have bitcoin, called "Nocoiner", which means "people without bitcoin."

A bitcoin was less than $1,000 at the beginning of the year, but a year later, the price of a bitcoin was already unattainable, reaching $20,000.

Compared with the rise of Bitcoin, the prices of other “virtual currencies” (also known as “cryptocurrencies” such as “Litecoin” and “Ethernet” have nearly turned a hundred times.

In the case of Litecoin, if you spend 20,000 yuan to buy 1,000 Litecoins at the price of 20 yuan at the beginning of 2017, the money has now become close to 2 million yuan.

Not only is China caught in a frenzy of investing in “virtual currency”, the United States, South Korea, Japan, and the rest of the world are fascinated by these invisible “currencies”.

So on the list of Amazon's December business classifications, graduated from Stanford University's Alan T. Norman's Cryptocurrency Investing Bible, which goes beyond the hot principles. Principles) and Tribe of Mentors became the number one bestseller.

This is a year of bitcoin skyrocketing, so at the end of the year, we might as well revisit this book, or take a good look at the following two questions:

What is bitcoin in the end? What will Bitcoin bring to us?

Whether you think this crazy surge is a "bubble", I believe that you need to understand what it is.

After all, the essence of investment is the realization of cognition. Only by constantly raising awareness can it be possible to take a car to the road to riches.

Second, what is bitcoin in the end?

In 2009, a mysterious man named “Zhong Ben Cong” published a paper “Bitcoin: a Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, which announced the bit. The birth of the coin.

But from the definition of “a peer-to-peer electronic cash transaction system”, it is really difficult to really understand what Bitcoin really is.

In this regard, I have a deep understanding, because in 2011, I was still in high school, a very good friend introduced me to a new thing he saw in the Baidu Post Bar called "Bitcoin".

At that time, he bought several bitcoins at a price of tens of dollars. Fortunately, he decided to sell them to the latest smartphone when Bitcoin rose to a few hundred dollars. Unfortunately, He did not expect that Bitcoin could rise to $20,000.

Unfortunately, I didn't figure out how it differed from Q coins, so I missed the first contact with Bitcoin, and I didn't make a smartphone. Therefore, they are all “virtual currencies”. What is the difference between Bitcoin and Q coins?

The biggest difference between Bitcoin and Q coins is the distribution mechanism.

Take Q coins, it is a virtual gold coin issued by Tencent. Tencent is the issuer. How much does it want to send? The number of Q coins is completely controlled by Tencent. As long as you are willing to use enough money to exchange Q coins, there will be enough Q coins to exchange with you.

So the problem arises. Since Q coins can be issued indefinitely by a specific institution, there is no upper limit to the number of Q coins, so it is easy to have excessive money outbreaks.

But bitcoin is different. It does not have a specific issuer such as the People's Bank of China and Tencent, but it is "calculated".

You can make an inappropriate analogy. In the Bitcoin network, the system automatically generates a very difficult math problem, and everyone works together to solve the problem.

When the math problem given by the system is solved, the person participating in the problem solving can obtain a certain amount of bitcoin as a reward according to the contribution. This kind of reward is not assigned by an institution, but by objective calculations.

Moreover, Bitcoin has been fixed in the system design, and only a total of 21 million bitcoins will be issued, so there will be no over-delivery.

To put it simply, Q coins are issued by Tencent. We call them “centralized currency issuance mechanisms”, but bitcoin is issued through calculations and via a currency network. We call it “decentralized”. Currency issuance mechanism."

I met Bitcoin again in 2013. The doubts in 2011 have not been resolved, and new problems have come. At that time, I began to use the “online payment” tools such as Alipay and online banking more frequently. What is the difference between these “online payment” and “electronic cash” and Bitcoin? What?

The biggest difference between Bitcoin and Alipay/Internet Banking is whether there is a third-party clearing house.

Online banking and Alipay are essentially a “tool” in which the figures are in RMB or other currencies. Money uses these tools to circulate on the Internet, but in essence, it is changing the bank's large digital books.

For example, if you use online banking to transfer A$1,000 to A, then on the bank's ledger, your number is reduced by 1,000 yuan, and the number of A is increased by 1,000 yuan.

However, transfers in the Bitcoin network do not require liquidation by third-party agencies, but are confirmed across the network. That is to say, on this network, everyone has a ledger that records all transfers on the network.

For example, if you want to change your transfer on online banking, then in fact, just change the bank's ledger. But if you complete a transfer on Bitcoin's network, then everyone's books on this network will record the transfer. Obviously, if you want to make changes, you have to change everyone's books.

To put it simply, the transfer clearing on online banking is recorded in the bank's big ledger. We call it the “centralized currency clearing mechanism”. The transfer on bitcoin is to record the books of each individual. We call it It is a “decentralized currency clearing mechanism”.

So you see, in fact, the so-called "electronic money", "network transfer" is not the original creation of bitcoin, and the real essence of bitcoin lies in these four words: decentralization.

Of course, "decentralization" is not the natural justice operation of the world. What we need to discuss is, what is the so-called "decentralization" of bitcoin?

Third, the meaning of bitcoin and "decentralization"

In 2017, in addition to “bitcoin”, another important phenomenon is undoubtedly “artificial intelligence”. From our previous interpretation and study of Faith Economy and Life 3.0, it is not difficult to conclude that Bitcoin and artificial intelligence are the two major awakening symbols of our time.

So what is the connection between bitcoin and artificial intelligence?

In short, due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, human work will eventually be replaced by artificial intelligence, and even humans will eventually be replaced by artificial intelligence.

But the problem is:

First, Marx said that the essence of mankind is labor. If the right to labor is deprived, what is the meaning of human existence? We are afraid to think about this ultimate issue before this incident really happens. In the moment, people are often confused by the fantasies of consumerism.

Second, if artificial intelligence not only deprives people of their right to work, but also completely controls humanity, can we make a final effort to fight for the right to independence?

Bitcoin has taken on these two historical missions. If it fails, then people will reflect on our lives and the way our world works when we wake up. If it succeeds, the "decentralized" attribute will allow us to resist artificial intelligence for a while.

And listen to the analysis below.

If Bitcoin fails, it is the LSD of our time.

LSD is a very popular psychedelic drug in the hippie movement of the 1960s. After taking this medicine, you can produce 4 to 12 hours of intense changes and changes in senses, feelings, memories and self-awareness. The imagination suddenly becomes very rich.

After taking LSD, you can build a realistic fantasy world in your brain, so in the process, you can't distinguish between reality and illusion.

Then why is bitcoin a bubble that will collapse, is the LSD of our time?

Let's compare and analyze the hippie movement that was driven by LSD. These young men and women use medicine to build a fantasy world, and then deconstruct the world, show the world's absurdity and irrationality, call on people to follow the heart, and not be blinded by the "reality" illusion.

However, the end of the hippie movement was a failure. He inspired some of the youth's awakenings, but there was no incitement to the fundamental order of the world. In fact, it also shows that this nihilistic awakening movement is impossible to bring people a real awakening.

However, bitcoin as a "linder" is based on extreme realism.

You can think of Bitcoin as a bubble, but in this bubble, we have created prices, indices, complete economic theory, modern information technology, huge organizational collaboration, and all the elements of rational civilization that human beings are proud of. Both can be constructed in a layer of foam.

Then, in the past, did we think that rational, solid, and materialistic civilizations might also be more subtle bubbles? Because we have proven in the past that the rational existence of a certain thing can be found in the world of Bitcoin, whether it is human or theory.

Is the house a bubble? Is the Internet a bubble? Is the banknote foam?

Is the current mode of operation of human civilization a bubble?

If Bitcoin continues to grow and grow so much that everyone is caught up in this crazy psychedelic experiment, when the bubble bursts and the big dream wakes up, I believe it will inspire people to think more about the nature of life than the hippie movement. .

So, if Bitcoin fails, then its significance to humans is a great psychedelic experiment.

If Bitcoin succeeds, it is the last line of defense against AI.

Of course, bitcoin will definitely fail? I can't judge. If bitcoin is defeated, then there is no point in discussing "decentralization."

And if Bitcoin is finally successful (although the criteria for success and failure are not well defined), then the meaning of "decentralization" will be infinitely magnified in the era of artificial intelligence, becoming the last line of defense against the rule of artificial intelligence.

Why do you say that? The truth is actually very simple, because "the sacred princes make the princes" much simpler than the "democratic elections."

For example, suppose that human beings accept the idea of ​​“decentralization”. All human power is elected by absolute transparency. If artificial intelligence wants to let humans accept their rule in a non-military way, it must Only by obtaining the consent of the majority of people and forming a "consensus" can we rule humanity.

And if the human organization is central, then artificial intelligence can control the organization of power. Without transparent "decentralization," it would be easy for artificial intelligence to control elections.

To give a concrete example, if artificial intelligence wants to obtain wealth and then hires humans to work for them, or hires humans to “listen to them,” they only need to modify the bank's big books in a “centralized” society.

If our world uses bitcoin as a currency, then artificial intelligence can't modify this big book, so it's hard to get a lot of wealth easily.

Therefore, if there is no “decentralization”, then artificial intelligence can accomplish the goal of ruling humanity “civilizedly” without violent means.

But if the decentralized way of operation represented by Bitcoin becomes the underlying operational logic of our world, it obviously increases the difficulty of artificial intelligence to rule the world, because in many things, it needs most humans. Forming a "consensus" can advance implementation.

However, in the far future, artificial intelligence may no longer need human existence, so whether we use Bitcoin or Litecoin, it doesn't make much sense, so I said that Bitcoin can only be the last one. Line of defense, not a line of defense that cannot be broken.

So you see, standing at the height of humanity, the meaning of Bitcoin is by no means as simple as the 17th century tulip bubble speculation. Whether you think he will fail or succeed, I think it is necessary for you to understand the underside of Bitcoin." The profound meaning of decentralization.

Therefore, the intent of this article is not to write a bitcoin knowledge encyclopedia, in fact, only want to outline, direct to the essence of things. Aside from the complicated illusions, what you should understand most is the meaning of the "decentralization" philosophy represented by Bitcoin.

Our human society has been a centralized operation for thousands of years. In the age of artificial intelligence, we are faced with human beings. Facing the possible torture of artificial intelligence in the future, we must think about how to cope with such a severe test. Perhaps, "decentralization" is a solution.

This is the true meaning of Bitcoin.