From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 16:50:28 MST
hal@finney.org writes:
> Drexler is of course better known for his work on nanotech, but Mark
> Miller has continued to pursue these ideas quite actively and is
> currently involved in the construction of the E programming language.
> This is designed to provide secure communication and information sharing,
> a necessary prerequisite for agoric computational systems. Information is
> at www.erights.org.
It seems to be a bit premature to extrapolate the nature of future
mind ecologies from this paper.
Where there is such a discrepancy in replication speed of information
patterns and the underlying physical computational substrate, early
conflicts _will_ issue. Cooperation, yes, but predation, too. Lots of
it.
What above coevolutionary soup simmering for gigayears will taste
like, no one can currently know. A rich ecology might be a pale
metaphor, but it's the best we currently have.
The best thing seems to find it out in person.
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