Rob,
This is a very insightful and knowledgeable reply and most of your coverage is
spot-on on. But…
Think of it when “databases” were first becoming pursued and popular. I don’t
know, say 1990’ ish? What was a database then? And think of databases now,
their realm of function, for example Firebase, NoSQL’s, Mongo, the graph
database ecosystem with add-ons and extensions, SQL Server and R, whole
development environments INSIDE the DB, etc.. A DBA then, like an accountant,
and a DBA now…
Blockchain, crypto-systems are not fixed immutable concepts like say web
browsers. Though web browsers are a cornucopia of techno-functionality
nowadays, bad example, say ring-buffers. Ring-buffers are a relatively fixed
tool that solves some specific problems. Blockchain opens doors into other
worlds basically.
But you are right many AGI “components” difficult or impossible to
blockchainify. Some components can be vastly improved it seems. When building a
giant sculpture with a handful of traditional tools you need to utilize a new
tool in new and creative ways to do things difficult or impossible to do before.
Most of my experience with blockchain, besides some technical research, is from
trading cryptocurrencies over the years and running many masternodes (wife
calls me a masternoder 😊 ) to supplement income. So I’ve done research on
thousands of cryptos basically and have practical experience. Look at TRON
acquiring bittorrent – very interesting 😊
So among the thousands of crypto’s you get many organizations doing different
things going different directions with their chains… on and off …
Relational integrity of course! My suggestion here of conscious awareness,
essentially securely recording and distributing historical consciousness
basically to platform “model checking”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking) on imagined models was to use
specific new features that blockchain brings.
Just touching on a couple of your insights…
John
From: Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 10:45 AM
To: AGI
Subject: Re: [agi] Blockchainifying Conscious Awareness
The Blockchain 2.0 and AGI - My rudimentary thoughts. Because I'm still
learning about this technology, anyone (including IBM) should feel free to
correct me where ever my understanding fails the reality. I'm commenting
because of the apparent significance of this technology to our business future
(including an AGI world). Please accept my apologies if I inadvertently
misrepresent the facts of the product and/or its application across industry. I
have no motive to want to do so.
I can best relate to Blockchain as an application, which automatically
generates Entity Relational Databases on the fly. Primarily, Blockchain very
much represents a dynamic data model. Granted, it has transactional
functionality, security, and the like, but all of that would be quite
meaningless without the integrity derived from the data model.
Further, without the relational part of the model, all entities (in the sense
of nodes) would remain uncoupled (unclustered). Without the business rules in
place, the nodes would not be able to be logically clustered. In short,
Blockchain could be compared to many things, including a scalable VPN, which is
enabled by a dynamic, relational data model. Did I say relational? Yes, I did.
In argument, if no relational integrity existed, would referential integrity be
possible at all (in this case)? In a stretch, the hearty part of Blockchain
could also be viewed as an operationally-integrated, near-real time,
enterprisal, lower CASE tool.
My summary:
Is The Blockchain a great, closed-network, commercial app? It probably is.
How would The Blockchain co-exist with AI? Pretty- damned good.
Is The Blockchain suitable as a core component for an AGI platform? No, but it
may be quite useful as a management application (a node) for one of the many
levels within the system (e.g., value transactions). This, provided the true
scalability issues could be resolved, which remains to be seen. If The
Blockcahin belonged to me, I would've integrated The Blockchain with a
truly-scalable ontology and repositioned its core on a complex-adaptive model.
I would've turned the pyramid on its head.
What do I see as the key constraint for The Blockchain? It's core dependency on
what appears to be a relational model.
What is my issue with The Blockchain's claim to be fully scalable? Given
pervasive network infrastructure being used across the world, I think a risk
exists that The Blockchain may eventually either duplicate, or contribute to
ambiguity within an open-standards network topology. That is, unless The
Blockchain is only X scalable within a standardized networking environment.
Scalable perhaps, yet limited in scale (does this still count as scalability
then?). I'm not suggesting the data-model-generation component is not scala
