> As has been said previously, there have been AI projects in the past
> which tried this credits or shares route which turned out to be very
> unsuccessful. The problem with issuing credits is that, rightly or
> wrongly, an expectation of short term financial reward is built up in
> the minds of some contributors. When this expectation is not realised
> things can become unpleasant.
People who brought Lehman Brothers probably feel rather "unpleasant"
now. But that's not a reason to abolish the stock market. "Caveat
emptor" means "let the buyer beware".
> There are additional problems with the credits idea. Under such a
> system I suspect that as time goes on an increasing amount of effort
> will be needlessly expended in arguments over who gets how many
> credits and how such credits are fairly approtioned ("I did more work
> on this than you did", "you didn't count the number of hours I spent
> researching rather than code writing", etc), detracting from the work
> which needs to be done.
What would be a better solution? Right now, *everybody*'s work goes
unaccounted for.
> There is no incompatibility with the idea of developing software under
> a FOSS licence, and then making money out of systems or services
> peripheral to that. Since the construction of AGIs is likely to be a
> long term effort the open source methodology seems appropriate, and
> under the current economic circumstances paying programmers to work on
> a project whose culmination may be years ahead in the future will
> appear increasingly unattractive.
It will be incompatible with some licenses; but then many newer
licenses are friendly to business.
A lot of work remains to be done in the AGI core, as well as the
periphery. Lots of things to be built.
There is no reason why a task is long term, then it shouldn't be paid
for. Besides, my optimistic estimate of AGI is 5-10 years. Not very
long-term at all.
> Incidentally, once a true AGI is created the current software
> development paradigm becomes obsolete anyway.
This doesn't sound very logical. Food will turn into excretion anyway, so...?
YKY
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