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marksteele10

Thought of more things.

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We obviously have sensors and things inside the vault. So what is preventing a thief from just stealing the entire freaking vault itself to be broken into at a separate location later. We need some way of decoupling "still in the vault" from "still at this particular location on earth". This means we'd need sensors and things on the OUTSIDE of the vault as well, or at least a GPS or something, which means we can't really isolate our AI from knowledge about the outside world, nor limit it to thinking "the vault is all there is, and ... (read more)

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marksteele10

Last I checked there were 66 comments and now there are over a hundred so I'm just going to post and hope I'm not repeating anyone.

So I've been reading through the google doc, and I'm not very far into it but I have a few questions. I apologize in advance if I'm just adhering too strictly to the "SmartVault" scenario, and if I get long-winded (yay ADHD and hyperfocusing off and on about this without actually making progress for a week).

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Why would we make a vault that was so complicated that a human alone couldn't run it? From a simple design standpoint an... (read more)

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Thought of more things. 4) We obviously have sensors and things inside the vault. So what is preventing a thief from just stealing the entire freaking vault itself to be broken into at a separate location later. We need some way of decoupling "still in the vault" from "still at this particular location on earth". This means we'd need sensors and things on the OUTSIDE of the vault as well, or at least a GPS or something, which means we can't really isolate our AI from knowledge about the outside world, nor limit it to thinking "the vault is all there is, and all there is is the vault". It needs to know, at the very least, that there is an oblate spheroid upon which the diamond is located, and the diamond must stay within a certain distance of its current location at all times (at least until decommisioning etc). 5) Do we care about legal/economic/political attacks to get the diamond? If continued ownership of the diamond is a prerequisite for successful protection, then what would it do about, say, losing the diamond in a divorce settlement, or being driven to bankruptcy and the diamond getting repossessed, or losing it as stakes in a bet? Will the AI know about inheritance and estates? What about if the diamond and vault is government owned and the diamond is lost as spoils of war? I think I'll stop before my imagination runs away from me.