About Charlie Northrup
Charlie Northrup is the founder of Neursciences. His work is hard to take in at first approach, but when it clicks, you know something major is going on. He’s a tech enthusiast, a serial inventor, and at the moment, he’s working primarily on interconnected systems. He’s working on several ground-breaking projects, including the universal framework of things, the virtual thing machine, the multi-key infrastructure, and something called holographic memory ID tags.
His work presents a concept called the Hyperconnected Universe. An A.I fused all-encompassing technology that provides a secure and efficient way for individuals, households, and organizations to participate in a new Agent oriented economy. To quote Charlie, “The Agent-to-Agent Economy can revolutionize a wide range of industries and facilitate new methods for the secure, trusted exchange of Things of value within and across the digital ecosystems of the Hyperconnected Universe.”
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Quotes From Charlie Northrup
“We have a lot of technology out there in the world. You have the web, you have the Internet of Things, the industrial Internet of Things, smart cities, electric vehicles. You have all of these different categories of technologies. Central bank digital currencies are coming out, stable coins, crypto blockchains. What if it all came together? What if it all existed in one space? That's what we call the hyper-connected universe.”
“There's a world called the hyper-connected universe, and inside it are all the things that we can interconnect.”
“There's this hyper-connected universe, and it can all be interconnected with one blockchain. Then we realized that's a problem. Because if blockchain itself is just a thing, it's a protocol, and so it's inside the hyper-connected universe, it can't define the boundaries of the hyper-connected universe.”
“Technology changes. So if you started out and said, "We're going to interconnect everything in the world together with this one particular blockchain," but what happens when a newer blockchain comes out, maybe a quantum-based blockchain? Do we just say, "Oh, well, now we've got the next version of the hyper-connected universe?”
“There's a higher level of abstraction that we needed to find and understand. And so that's what we were focused on, how can you take all these pieces in the world and bring them all together in a unified model?”
“There's just three types of things in the world: something that the machine can perform, something that it can act upon, something that it can use to modify meaning.”
“What if you could build the equivalent of a digital brain inside a machine, and inside that brain was the vocabulary that the machine knew?”
“What if you could build the equivalent of a digital brain inside a machine, and inside that brain was the vocabulary that the machine knew?”
“And so your agent has to be able to do that same thing. It has to be able to contemplate, what is it that's being asked of me based on everything I know and then go through a sequence of steps about whether or not it should actually do something, figure out what it's going to do, and then do it.”
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More Quotes From Charlie Northrup
“What would be the implication of that? Could a machine have an existential crisis, for example? Could you build a vocabulary into a machine so it’s got a thinking vocabulary and it’s using my thinking vocabulary, and what happens when it can’t perform any more useful work in the world?”
“Could the AI agent say, “I’ll sell it to the electric company, but they’ve got to pay me in Satoshi, and I’m going to take that Satoshi, and maybe once I get two or three, I’ll give something to the homeowner, but otherwise, I’m going to keep it for myself?” And could this digital brain decide that it wants to make money?”
“Build a digital brain and allow it to perform useful work and get paid for doing useful work.” Well, that’s great. And then what happens when it decides that it can’t perform useful work anymore? What happens to the machine? Does the machine continue on with its goal?”
“Are you trying to build the equivalent of human consciousness? The answer was just no. There’s a very good technique for creating human consciousness, and it has nothing to do with machines. So if you’re not trying to do that, then, “Well, what are we actually generating? What are we creating?”
“If you can’t build human consciousness in a machine, which you can’t, then you can’t be limited by it. That reopened a whole bunch of doors for us to go down and explore.”
“We added in a speaker and microphone, an optical transceiver, and we had other ways for the machine to communicate other than having to use the web. And that reaffirmed to us that this new hyper-connected world is not bound by the Internet.”
“The way to think of it is that everybody would end up having their own version of a digital agent, an intelligent agent that works just for them.”
“It’s your agent. And you should have the ability to say, “I want my agent to learn about X because I’m interested in X.” And I should be able to say, “Well, I want my agent to learn about Y because I’m interested in Y.” And the two agents, even though they’re independent of each other, they should be able to evolve differently, and you can only do that if you own your own agent, if you have the right to derive how that agent is going to evolve.”
“And so your agent has to be able to do that same thing. It has to be able to contemplate, what is it that’s being asked of me based on everything I know and then go through a sequence of steps about whether or not it should actually do something, figure out what it’s going to do, and then do it.”
“In today’s web 3 environment it’s typically controlled on a blockchain with smart contracts in some form of consensus. But in a world where you have both decentralized things and centralized things, who should control that exchange of things of value between the agents?”
“I don’t want another app that’s controlled by another company. I want an app that I can control. I’ve got, you know, 50 different apps on my smartphone. Why in God’s name can’t it just bring them all together and just move stuff between them.”
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