From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 13:57:17 MST
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> > What systems offer an intermediate relationship so that people are impelled
> > to challenge each other yet has check points so that people do not become
> > overly irrational?
>
> I think Drexler made many good points in the by now ancient "Hypertext
> and the growth of knowledge". Many scienctific feedback systems are
> based on using challenges to produce better science.
Drexler, K. E., "Hypertext publishing and the evolution of knowledge",
Social Intelligence 1(2):87-120 (1987).
http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/HPEK1.html
The "irrational" test is very simple -- it involves a claim, belief, hope
that something other than oneself (esp. if it involves "magic" physics)
will save you. The people one can trust and who are *worth* engaging
in challenges are those who are working their butts off to save themselves
and/or define new physics (that might allow us to save ourselves).
Robert
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