> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mahoney via AGI [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> Setting up a P2P peer on your home computer or phone without a static IP is
> not trivial but people do it with tor and bittorrent, so it is not impossible 
> either.
> You have to set up your router and firewall to allow incoming requests. But it
> would also work as a way for web servers to communicate. Most people would
> probably connect to a peer as a client and be able to receive messages over an
> open connection like most messaging apps.
> 

P2P is really this label for many distributed architectures. I prefer a mix of 
client server with P2P and then blurring the distinction between client and 
server but have different types of nodes and supernodes... XMPP is a good 
system not really listed as P2P but it's servers can be like P2P and XMPP is 
extensible, well used, and has lots of open source software.

> 
> We don't have distributed search, but now I am not so sure that would work in
> an environment where most small peers haven't established trust. It is
> technically possible now, for example, to forward queries to Google (probably
> with some payment) and replace their ads and sponsored results with your
> own. But who would use it? You have to offer something that Google doesn't
> already give you.
> 

Google like the others doesn't offer a lot of things for example privacy and 
anonymity.

For this "AGI" do we really care who you are, unless trying to validate your 
credit card for purchases, verses what you know? My name is John but I could 
also be known as Oiu24n!57n%vqeur#q9-1r!orgp35R6oUA though I suppose having a 
lower k-complexity name is a form of anonymity...

Your system could work like this: Machine peers start out as experts in one 
area of knowledge and as their knowledge grows they choose to subdivide and 
offload to other peers and so on so the more peers there are the more 
specialized they get. An issue is distributing the knowledge redundancy 
efficiently. But a machine peer could query Google so essentially a large 
system like this could effectively take a snapshot of Google's index... Google 
may at some point force people to prove human identity before allowing queries 
as queries might be as import as their results. 

John






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