Re: Teach the hungry (Was: Hollywood Economics)

From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Thu Sep 03 1998 - 07:37:19 MDT


J. Maxwell Legg wrote:

> > Are you suggesting creating a giant neural net
> > to facilitate resource sharing, so rather than
> > be held at the whim of capitalists the economy
> > itself will decide who gets what and when?
>
> A capitalistic economy is already an autonomous
> entity and capitalists mere components, but I
> strongly feel it is in need of a purposeful
> hybridization to allow it to evolve beyond a
> zero-sum game. Indeed the following software
> component can co-evolve along the way to adjust
> out the whim component.

Hybridisation with what? Are you saying the
economy's a bit like a neural net so lets make it
even more like a neural net?

I think you're suggesting `filtering' the
interactions of capitalists to fit the model of a
neural net more precisely, but I'm unsure.

BM



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