Re: Teach the hungry (Was: Hollywood Economics)

J. Maxwell Legg (income@ihug.co.nz)
Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:55:39 +1200

Bryan Moss wrote:

> J. Maxwell Legg wrote:
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> > > 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?
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> > 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.
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> 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?

YES

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

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