Re: >H soft incremental uploads

From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 15 1996 - 04:58:42 MDT


On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Hara Ra wrote:

> A variation on this is to incrementally grow an interface to a standard
> "socket" into which varied premanufactured neural nets may be attached. I
> imagine a kind of "Tower Records" store which has thousands of neural nets
> available for almost any purpose, just like music CDs. It also simplifies
> unistalling, just unplug the chip.... BTW, I recall something on this topic
> in Neuromancer....

Sounds a bit like the shop described in Egan's short story "Axiomatic"
where you can buy beliefs, personalities and computer games.

Unfortunately it isn't obvious how to implement it practically.

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