Hi,
> CMR (my proposal) has no centralized control (global brain). It is a > competitive market in which information has negative value. The environment > is a peer-to-peer network where peers receive messages in natural language, > cache a copy, and route them to appropriate experts based on content. > You seem to misunderstand the notion of a Global Brain, see http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAIFAQ.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain It does not require centralized control, but is in fact more focused on emergent dynamical "control" mechanisms. > > I believe that CMR is initially friendly in the sense that a market is > friendly. Which is to say: dangerous, volatile, hard to predict ... and often not friendly at all!!! > A market is the most efficient way to satisfy the collective goals of its > participants. It is fair, but not benevolent. I believe this is an extremely oversimplistic and dangerous view of economics ;-) Traditional economic theory which argues that free markets are optimally efficient, is based on a patently false assumption of infinitely rational economic actors. This assumption is **particularly** poor when the economic actors are largely **humans**, who are highly nonrational. As a single isolated example, note that in the US right now, many people are withdrawing their $$ from banks even if they have less than $100K in their accounts ... even though the government insures bank accounts up to $100K. What are they doing? Insuring themselves against a total collapse of the US economic system? If so they should be buying gold with their $$, but only a few of them are doing that. People are in large part emotional not rational actors, and for this reason pure free-markets involving humans are far from the most efficient way to satisfy the collective goals of a set of humans. Anyway a deep discussion of economics would likely be too big of a digression, though it may be pertinent insofar as it's a metaphor for the internal dynamics of an AGI ... (for instance Eric Baum, who is a fairly hardcore libertarian politically, is in favor of free markets as a model for credit assignment in AI systems ... and OpenCog/NCE contains an "economic attention allocation" component...) ben g ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
