--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you resolve disagreements?
This is a problem for all large databases and multiuser AI systems. In my design, messages are identified by source (not necessarily a person) and a timestamp. The network economy rewards those sources that provide the most useful (correct) information. There is an incentive to produce reputation managers which rank other sources and forward messages from highly ranked sources, because those managers themselves become highly ranked. Google handles this problem by using its PageRank algorithm, although I believe that better (not perfect) solutions are possible in a distributed, competitive environment. I believe that these solutions will be deployed early and be the subject of intense research because it is such a large problem. The network I described is vulnerable to spammers and hackers deliberately injecting false or forged information. The protocol can only do so much. I designed it to minimize these risks. Thus, there is no procedure to delete or alter messages once they are posted. Message recipients are responsible for verifying the identity and timestamps of senders and for filtering spam and malicious messages at risk of having their own reputations lowered if they fail. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=98631122-712fa4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
