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I knew it had to be this. Number of edges in complete graph of order n, K_n. https://oeis.org/A000217 https://oeis.org/A000217 There's no way for everyone to
by pontifier 5y ago
I knew it had to be this. Number of edges in complete graph of order n, K_n.
https://oeis.org/A000217 https://oeis.org/A000217
There's no way for everyone to talk to everyone. The solution I came up with at the time was to have a rudimentary chat bot connect parts of conversations intelligently. Now, of course just throw an AI at it.
A well designed website with different conversations going on in different places might work almost as well. This site does an adequate job actually.
- flir 5y agoThat's an intriguing approach (AI summaries). I've got an intense dislike for the scrum-of-scrum approach. If you've ever happened to read A Fire Upon The Deep there's a cool alien species in there that has, essentially, a configurable brain topology. Interesting musings there on how those configurations modify their thinking.
- pontifier 5y agoI enjoy Vernor Vinge's books. Intelligence augmentation plays a role in many of his books and short stories. I have recently become aware that the brain topology of the Tines may be more similar to our own than I thought. A brain structure mediates the communication between our hemispheres, but just like individuals in a Tine pack, they process things independently and contribute their specific value to the whole. I think it is possible that they even have their own personalities and moods. People having a conversation use language to collaboratively create shared meaning between all the lobes available to them.