Thanks YKY for your response! --- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I support opensource AGI with the following reasons: > > 1. It would be nearly impossible to enforce the > single-AGI scenario; I > think the best strategy is to start a project and > try our best in it. Regardless, I will try to structure my project so that there are strong benefits from federation. > 2. One possibility is to make the AGI software > commercial, but at a very > low cost, and with differential pricing for > individuals vs commercial, > developing vs developed countries, etc. > > 3. Profits could be re-distributed among > researchers / programmers, and for > solving social problems associated with AI. In this > sense the GPL may be > inappropriate because it forces the software to be > freely distributable. Richard Stallman's point, repeated recently at a Free Software Foundation event in India, is that there is a class of developers who do not need a salary. And if an AGI open source project shows promise he supposes that various enterprises will pay some employees to contribute. > 4. The 'safety' issue would be resolved by nations > deciding that AI > warfare is disastrous for the human race and thus > avoiding using it for > aggressive purposes. Powerful nations may build > military AIs but the > balance of power would prevent them from being used. I agree with this and other comments here that state that the open source license should not try to constrain usage, rather that's for the surrounding legal structure to ultimately deal with. > 5. As for how to distribute income to "authors", > simply measuring > compressed lines of code would be problematic > because it ignores > architectures and design of algorithms, plus a lot > of other things that do > not manifest in coding. IMO in a "fairer" world we > should reward as many > people as possible who have any direct or indirect > contribution towards the > AGI. I think an internal (or even external) voting > system coupled with > compressed-lines-of-code may be more reasonable. Rather than cash payments I have in mind a scheme similar to the pre-world wide web bulletin board system in which FTP sites had upload and download ratios. If you wished to benefit from the site by downloading, you had to maintain a certain level of contributions via file uploads. Analogously, if one seeks to benefit from using a freely available internet-based distributed AGI, then one should contribute to it, either by donating some compute cycles, or by spending some time to tutor it. Cheers. -Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
