Charles H: Due to this, the resource management should not be algorithmic,
but
free to adapt to the amount of resources at hand. I'm intent on a
economic solution to the problem, where each activity is an economic
actor.
The idea of economics is v. interesting & important. I think - & I'm
confident science will come to think - of humans as psychoeconomies -
continually having to decide how much effort and time we will continue to
invest in each activity, both mental and physical. We automatically ask
whether it's "worth" investing our resources - worth the likely risks and
costs in terms of effort and time . ("Is it worth it?" "Can I be
arsed/bothered" "Is there any chance of it working?" "It'll take forever/no
time at all.." etc. etc)
This is a continuous metacognitive level of activity-assessment, and it
applies to very small sub-activities as well. We continually ask ourselves,
for example, even in putting together posts like these, whether it is worth
developing this idea or that, or trying to dig up a reference, or find an
analogy. We don't just proceed in automatic trains of thought, as AFAIK
current computer programs do.
Such psychoeconomic, metacognitive "resource management" is essential for a
true AGI. For one thing, a true AGI has to be able to drop - and therefore
decide whether it's worth dropping - any activity at literally any moment -
in order to attend to something more important that may arise.
So I'd be interested to hear more from you here, especially on how your
management will be other than algorithmic.
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