When an AGI writes a book, designs a new manufacturing base, forms a decentralised form of regulation, ect, the copyright and patent system will be futile, because the enclosed material, when deemed useful by another, will access the same information and rewrite it in another form to create a separate work outside the realms of property or courts of law. Political power is becoming more decentralised in the world of the digital. As this continues, I don't see much use for copyright or need for proprietary agencies (nations, banks, business) in general.
Keep in mind that scarcity, the proprietary enterprise of copyright and its representatives (the agencies of scarcity) you speak of will create further conflict if maintained in an abundantly post-AGI environment. Trends seem to suggest a continued decentralization of power and a centralization of freely available information. These conditions have ripened the voluntary construction of information (Wikipedia) and programs (OpenOffice). Physical production is taking the same evolutionary path computing followed from centralized proprietary systems to open portable systems. Manufacturing is coming closer and closer to home; localized and at-home desktop manufacturing are in development and will become feasible. There are far more challenges involved in making physical items financially free, but with those willing to make it happen with the tools available, and as less expensive tools become available, most notably, AGI, in a post-AGI environment, full automation of production both physical and intellectual is but a skip and a hop away, leaving workforces without a job and capital without a market to scale. Scarcities like land area and physical resources on Earth as a given, capital may not exist post-AGI, yet regulatory agencies will need to remain to divide and allocate, if but in a more open manner with everyone's interests in mind, something that would require the assistance of AGIs embedded in software to maintain. I have no doubt AGI will do great things for everyone, however, proprietary agency like copyright will need to stand aside or be challenged. Its also important that we have a social system in place for individuals previously existing in proprietary society, something that meets or exceeds the living standards of Industrialised societies. In a fully open environment we can expect to rely on personal and social value instead of ownership and labor value. The attempt to enclose what an AGI produces will be a rather hopeless endeavor in the long run. Nathan Cravens ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
