[p2p-research] Sharing of Resources : when multiple users need exclusive access to shared resources

[Samuel Rose]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson
<dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marc ( cc: Alex )
> In relation to PPP
> http://www.publicprivateproperty.org/wiki/Main_Page
> I realized this could be an interesting situation :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem
> " In general the dining philosophers problem is a generic and abstract
> problem used for explaining various issues which arise in problems which
> hold mutual exclusion as a core idea. The various kinds of failures these
> philosophers may experience are analogous to the difficulties that arise in
> real computer programming when multiple programs need exclusive access to
> shared resources. These issues are studied in the branch of Concurrent
> Programming. "
>


Yes, exactly, this is why I sent this to you a while ago. Someone else
replied that this does not really apply to humans and human activity,
but I disagree.

The problems of starvation and deadlock most assuredly emerge in human
systems, and dining philosophers gives some practical insight into
ways of dealing with it.

Dining philosophers indeed could be related to the public/private
property problem in this way.


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM
> Subject: collaborative financial interface ? Re: (con)currency of users
> To: Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
> Cc: agile-vortex at googlegroups.com, econowmix at googlegroups.com
>
>
> Thanks Sam.
> Could we start with a smaller amount of users, which would "play" with a
> protocol they can choose to use ?
> And , unless it is used through a non digital interface such as some kind of
> board game,
> can we make the data related to such use of the protocols accessible,
> so that that users can build on each other,
> such as with wiki's,
> while also enable what has been built to use as "circuits"?
> In effect, creating some kind of collaborative "interface" for financial
> transactions ?
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson
>> <dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In effect, I imagine that we can design simple principles ( protocols ?
>> > )
>> > that enable
>> > an operating system
>> > "of" users
>> > that enables "concurrency"
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)
>> > "facilitated" by tools mediated by ICT... ?
>>
>> I've participated in several communities where we've thought of
>> similar things in the past. It's a vision that probably goes back to
>> the first networked computers.
>>
>> What you imagine is possible only if everyone adopts some way of being
>> a participant which is interoperable with most other participants.
>> This ecology must first exist before the any architecture or meta
>> computational paradigm can emerge.
>>
>> Thus, I still maintain that the primary mission is creating a way for
>> any single system to talk to others in an understandable way (adopt
>> some standard/protocol or make one and use it).
>>
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>
>
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