From: David Picón Álvarez (eleuteri@myrealbox.com)
Date: Fri Feb 29 2008 - 15:36:46 MST
From: "Matt Mahoney" <matmahoney@yahoo.com>
> I would be more concerned about the uncontrolled and self-propagating
> growth
> of a competitive, distributed query/message posting service such as the
> one I
> outlined in http://www.mattmahoney.net/agi.html
> It is friendly only to the point that peers need to provide useful and
> truthful information to acquire reputation and resources. Once hardware
> advances to the point where peer intelligence exceeds human intelligence
> (e.g.
> the peers can write and debug software), then humans will be left behind,
> at
> the same time being totally dependent on it.
Why wouldn't a network with this topology not suck like Freenet does, and
why doesn't it make sense to use PKI to make the reputation system robust
and the relaying tamper-proof?
--David.
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