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Very good summary of the state of the art in the early 70s. His analysis of the "API" problem reminds me of some of the ideas Jaron Lanier was floating around
by pnathan 13y ago
Very good summary of the state of the art in the early 70s.
His analysis of the "API" problem reminds me of some of the ideas Jaron Lanier was floating around about ten years ago. I can't recall the name of it, but it was some sort of biologically inspired handshake mechanism between software 'agents'.
What I think such things require is an understanding of what is lacking in order to search for it; as near as I can tell, that requires some fashion of self-awareness. This, as far as I can conceive, recurses into someone writing code, whether it be Planner or XML. But my vision is cloudy on such matters.
I should note that I think Brett is one of the leading thinkers of his (my) generation, and have a lot of respect for his ideas.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoI think you might be thinking of the RNA metaprotocol or Recursive Network Architecture.
- pnathan 13y agoPhenotropics, actually. http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/jaron2019s-world http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/jaron2019s-world I dug around for a bit when I came across the idea but never could figure out where the reification of the idea went. I'll eyeball RNA, but at first glance it doesn't appear quite the same idea.