--- Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not the risk that concerns me. The real risk is that a single, > > fully > > cooperating system has no evolutionary drive for self improvement. > > So we provide an artificial evolutionary drive for the components of society > via a simple economy . . . . as has been suggested numerous times by Baum > and others.
I looked up Baum's research, in particular http://www.whatisthought.com/hayek32000.pdf So what provides the artificial evolutionary drive in your system? I can accept that cooperation between agents and killing defectors (your definition of Friendly) leads to greater fitness, but where does the group goal of self preservation come from if there are no wars between groups? Suppose you were the only person on earth and you decided to stop eating? Your cells are cooperating perfectly with each other, for example, killing off cancerous mutations. But deciding to stop eating is a group decision. As long as there is competition between humans, this behavior is weeded out. Are you implying that Friendly behavior requires wars between groups, or is there something else that stops the whole group from making a bad collective decision? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
