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Fascinating concept. It would need a very specific kind of product for such a cooperation to be able to withstand human competition though. The OP mentions a st
by adamb_ 13y ago
Fascinating concept. It would need a very specific kind of product for such a cooperation to be able to withstand human competition though. The OP mentions a storage service & autonomous cars, but I'm thinking that a good candidate would be a product with such thin margins, supporting human labor could not be feasible.
- olalonde 13y agoIt does not necessarily have to withstand human competition though. Let's say there is an agent A whose source is on Github and which makes X BTC/month. If the agent is programmed to pay out dividends to shareholders and auto-update its code, (large) shareholders have a shared interest in improving the agent. Likewise, an ambitious developer could fork agent A and try to improve it. If he can convince a lot of people that his agent will beat out the other agent, he can get people to invest in it in order to bootstrap agent B (assuming the agent requires an initial investment). If agent B is more profitable than agent A, people will start investing time and money on it and abandon the other agent. PS: Agents would not necessarily need investors assuming they can bootstrap themselves to profitability. This is just a possible scenario. However, I think is likely that agents who rely on some form of human input are more likely to beat the competition.