Having listened to the general hubbub of this thread in my opinion making profit your main aim,
YKY wants to get rich. Personally, I don't care as long as a Friendly AGI is created (though I am fully aware of the power of money to attract workers and investors to further that goal).
along with the "all your code belongs to me" philosophy
Which YKY certainly doesn't have and what I'm trying to do is keep the code "safe" . . . . do you have any better solution to *that* problem?
is unlikely to lead to success
Yeah, the problem with this discussion is that it solely deals with infrastructure which never leads to success but the failure of which *always* leads to failure.
Look at this as my minimum requirements/negative pitch that I'm giving before the true positive pitch. Is there any way to keep the code safe that you would accept?
Judging by the volume of text generated so far on this subject I expect that anyone joining this sort of venture will waste a lot of their mental energy determining precisely who owns what and arguing over the details of the mechanism for allocation of profits based upon contributions
I thought that my proposal was pretty well designed to prevent exactly that behavior (unless you think that people are going to successfully design and implement an AGI in such a fashion as to influence their profits by some means other than submitting good, general contributions -- and no, I don't believe that submitting and enforcing algorithms is going to do it).
does number of lines of code equal contribution,
Gee, I hope not since I tend to do things with *a lot* fewer lines of code than most folk.
To pursue the for-profit route I think you will need both a clearly defined AGI architecture and also a clear causal mechanism linking contributions to pay, which leaves little room for argument.
I agree that you need a clearly defined architecture but am not sure that we would agree on "a clear causal mechanism linking contributions to pay, which leaves little room for argument". I would argue that "What the Friendly AGI feels you deserve *IS* a clear causal mechanism" though it doesn't have the predictability that I suspect that you desire.
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