Ziana Astralos <ziana@extrotech.net> writes:
> On Wed, 20 December 2000, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> > ...
> > Maybe it could be improved if there was a better way
> > of accumulating and learning from such decisions on
> > a global scale
> > ...
>
> Kinda like the Borg? ;-)
Exactly. One of the interesting ideas ST had about the Borg was that
it was a highly adaptable "species". In guess the Borg would be
extremely flexible if what any unit learned would be transferred to
the whole collective - which was of course why ST then ignored the
whole thing except for some silly talk about phaser frequencies. A
Borg that changed strategy, used clever ambushes, exploited the
know-how about the enemy newly assimilated units had and moved fast
would not make a good enemy, since Enterprise wouldn't have a chance
:-) Sasha described something like this collective learning in his
Networking in the Mind Age paper.
You don't need a group mind to create a learning organisation
though. As Greg pointed out, the legal system acts as a very slow
one. (Hmm, maybe that would be a suitable opponent in Star Trek:
"Captain, our scanners detect a Litigator Cube ahead! It has caught us
in a subpoena beam!").
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