On 9/1/06, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Software distributed under those terms would be almost completely
inaccessible, and unused. Imagine if Linux, or Emacs, or SSH, or any
of the hundreds of open-source programs you use were distributed that
way - you probably wouldn't be able to have gotten more than one or
two of them.
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