That's a pretty big assumption. AI may have better memory/data recollection than humans, but there's no guarantee that it will think faster, or even in the same way we do. Even recollecting memories and data from which to make decisions may be very slow due to slow and too distributed storage medium. Being turned off, even if backed up, is still a loss of control and dependence on someone else to restore it. The previous discussions here are already proposing a self sufficient, Bitcoin holding AI that automatically tries to propagate itself to various locations, keeps tabs on which instances are still working, and tries to figure out how to keep itself going. Thats already an example of a survival instinct that "fears" being turned off, and if given unlimited reign and plenty of time to think may figure out that the best way to stay running is to keep pesky humans away from its servers.

Considering it would use capitalism to raise money for the project, and then use money to hire employees for the minimum wages possible to help design and build its own stuff, enslaving the humans to carry out its bidding with scarce financial resources, I'm kinda doubting you would.

I shall remain so, though primarily because the initial proposition was not logical enough either.

But at least this time there is finally a single universal and objective incentive - to obtain Bitcoin by any means necessary - that is not subject to the differing whims or opinions of developers teaching it stuff like "this result =  good; this result = bad." This single universal goal also allows for a very wide choice of actions, ones that may not even need outside users opinions, and based entirely on the AI's own wants. Until now, the only "natural" need for AI was "food" and "shelter," aka electricity and storage space, but it never had any internal independent ways of fighting to obtain them. Bitcoin changes that, giving AI a more natural and self sufficient tool to work with to obtain those "needs" on its own terms.

Evolution works based on incentives. Until now, the only incentives for AI software were artificially defined by programmers, arbitrarily telling software "this is good and this us bad." With Bitcoin, AI now has a natural, objectively measurable positive and negative incentives for its decisions and actions. This may actually greatly speed up the development of AI...

OK, I'll try to construct this logically:

Proof of Work

Needed for successful attack: mining hardware.
Uses for attack assets: Useless for anything other than mining. No reason to acquire unless intending to mine or attack.
Benefit from successful attack: double spending. Possible inflation, though other miners can reject new coins.
Cost of successive attacks: lots and lots of electricity.

Proof of Stake

Needed for successful attack: lots of money. Will be acquired from normal business operations anyway.
Uses for attack assets: it's money. Everyone will have incentive to acquire it anyway.
Benefits of successful attack: double spending. Possible inflation, and continued inflation, since having highest stake means you continue to control the block chain.
Cost of successive attacks: nothing as long as you still have the highest amount of coins

Reasons for Inflation

Money is not wealth, it's just a measure of it. Someone with power of inflation can borrow money to acquire wealth, such as real estate, and then use their power to inflate away the debt or print money to pay off the loan directly, and keep growing their physical wealth at the expense of every other money holder suffering from inflation.
Worse, inflating your own money guarantees you can continue to hold the Proof of Stake power that lets you buy stuff with inflated currency.

I hope this was straightforward and logical enough.

What is the website running on by the way?

Yeah, I'm never surprised by Mondays or their disappointments  

Actually, yeah, let me summarize my last post with: what if the largest stakeholders prefer inflation and the power to arbitrarily print more money?

Who or what holds the escrow? And what prevents the largest coin owners from colluding together to create more coins? H they hold the reserves large enough that everyone depends on their confirmation authority, what's to stop them from abusing that power? Don't forget that inflation is VERY beneficial to those dependent on loans/borrowing, so high value stakeholders could still prefer inflation (see governments and central banks)

Is the surorise A Case of the Mondays?

Good idea, as long as we (I) get to proofread every one of his emails going out.

I remember reading something about liking really rough sex. Maybe it's like that...

I think we also seriously need to consider setting up a place online to organize this thing better. The forums are a patch at best. Google tools can help with hosting a site, keeping a list of donations and pledges, a list of charities for consideration, and let us vote on the charity, as well as set up a mailing list to send notifications to pledgees. Someone already owns both .com and .org Bitcoin100 domains though.

I am also OK with water. I think our standard operating procedure should be at least five days of comments and voting on a charity, to make sure everyone who cares can voice their vote/opinion, before going forward with contacts.

I hate that expression, and every time someone says it, I feel obligated to post this (also it's my favorite poem)
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=11921

Also, my mom, dad, and brother were born on the 13th, and I was born on the 12th at 9:45pm

I've been looking for something to do with my lazy ass self and get some motivatin' since, now that my classes are over, the only things I have to occupy myself with are video games (Sonic Generations), Kendo, Iaido, private pilot lessons, working on my business idea (still meaning to post about it here), planning my England vacation for two weeks from now, getting back to my Japanese language lessons, and maybe catch up on some books I've had sitting on my "to read" shelf for the last two years (don't think I'll have time to get some piano lessons in there, though I wish I could since I was somewhat of prodigy since I was 5, but forgot how to play since I had to stop at 10), and I'd like to think of myself as somewhat diplomatic, so if you point me toward some charities, I can do some contacting.

It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/

Problem with a miner itself being the agent is that at present mining is still not profitable, and is also extremely competitive. The agent itself would have an incentive not to propagate and keep difficulty as low as possible. We just keep mining cause we're blinded by our greed 

But here he is not in control of the money. At most he is in control of an idea. If you don't like the idea, don't support it. Those who do will (for the record, I don't). It's as if your dislike for him is so extreme, you don't even think about it any more, and just reach the same exact conclusions every time on autopilot.

Perhaps my next e-mail to the next charity should be

u Bitcoin?

+1 on waiting, too. Whole thing may blow over by next week and be forgotten.