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Voluntary authentication of messages |
Many messages and indeed entire thought processes are encrypted to protect security for sender and recipient alike. However, keys and codes and pads only work if you can trust the sender in the first place.
Say we are imagining two Hyperturings talking to each other, full
broadband, sharing news/gossip/recipes/urgent information/memes. Each
AI has internal autosophonce, also known as autoscience, so knows where
all er internal information comes from and has an estimation of how
authentic it is. The originating hyperturing could subscribe to a
voluntary authentication agreement and share er assessment of
authenticity with the recipient. If the assessment is later found to be
inaccurate the originating hyperturing loses credibility and all
information received from er will be downgraded in credibility
assessment.Ultimately stronger sanctions might be necessary.This only
really works when the entities are of roughly similar toposophy and
when the entity has not been internally subverted (and cannot trust er
own internal reporting). (Drebart's Postulation...No matter how
complicated and small/large the AI there will be a smaller scale/larger
complexity/higher intelligence AI that can subvert it...unless this
escalation stops at Planktech.) Rvery entity will just have to live
with constant distrust. The lightspeed gap between many entities will
make it worse too.
Many of the extinct civilisations disappeared for unknown reasons-
possibly eaten by their own defence mechanisms.
And then there's the other galaxies to think about- various
pan-galactic civilisations should have started to colonise other nearby
galaxies within the timescale of the Universe as it is currently
understood. There is patchy information about the situation in the Triangulum galaxy,
for instance, where a galactic civilisation has developed, but between
the galaxies mysterious moving objects have been detected which may or
may not pose a threat. Even with all the telescopes available in the
Civilized Galaxy and beyond the amount of the Universe which can be
examined in detail is tiny. Imagine the Galaxy as a deep sea fish, with
very sharp but tiny eyes, peering at the other galaxies with trepidation
