--- Philip Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. OK, perhaps my example will not easily extend to the usage model for an AI downloadable software. Maybe then the behavior of the system can be curious, and persuade, rather than compel, a fraction of the users to contribute their knowledge back into the system. -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]
