Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi...
by protomyth on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:48PM
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Telescript was fun, but those machines were awful buggy and the PC client was a bit odd. I still think agent oriented programming has a place with large program organization. We regularly run other people's code on remote machines every time we visit a web page so one of the objections to mobile agents isn't exactly different than today.
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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi...
by rbanffy on Sunday April 22, 2018 @05:33PM
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The opportunities for emergent behavior (or misbehavior) are abundant. That's a great approach to make systems that act in completely unpredictable ways.
Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi...
by protomyth on Sunday April 22, 2018 @06:27PM
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Maybe, but after all the talk of training and not knowing why decisions are being made, I really want to keep anything resembling emergent at arms length. I very much more interested on multi-agent systems effects on resource allocation and maintainability.
I see your line of thinking as great and interesting, but I'm now in the camp that sees a lot of people blaming "algorithms" for computer decisions that have negative effects (banning or denying resources) on people and thinking that's ok they cannot explain their program's decisions.