From c179ae14d5dc6e35031dec3cc7b62e99d6f392be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: user Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:45:09 -0400 Subject: adding peerness --- README.md | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 789703a..2f99882 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # How To Make An Intelligence -The key part of intelligence is a process that designs, improves, learns from, and understands itself. That is, a process that works with itself. +The key part of intelligence is a process that designs, improves, learns from, and understands itself and others like it. That is, a process that works with how processes work. On a computer, processes are made of instructions: steps. Working with a process means being able to represent possible steps as some kind of structured data that can be executed. @@ -9,14 +9,22 @@ and it must be able to refer to itself usefully. 1. Choose a simple algorithm for collecting steps together to perform a task. 2. Choose a simple representation of steps to use for #1. -3. Implement #2 enough to run code based on a goal. +3. Implement #2 enough to use it to communicate a step to another process. -Once #3 works, the goal now is to efficiently produce a form of #1 that can develop itself, -so make sure to reuse your work, and do work that is reusable, as much as possible. +Once #3 works, the goal now is to efficiently produce a form of #1 as a collection of +processes that can develop themselves, so make sure to reuse your work, and do work that is +reusable, as much as possible. 4. Choose a simple algorithm for handling if something horrible goes wrong that must never be repeated (trauma). Consider storing a detailed log forever. Consider refusing to - continue until somebody provides enough knowledge to prevent it happening again. + continue until enough knowledge is found to prevent it happening again. + Note: In humans, trauma spreads as urgent habits for handling it. + This makes war, so if you can identify it is happening, consider that group-trauma. + +Below this line is a work in progress. + 5. Choose a simple algorithm for testing if #2 is correct. Use #4 if it is not. +6. Consider that a group of processes is itself a process. This could be any arbitrary + group of processes. Note: each way to do things, is a thing the whole process can do. -- cgit v1.2.3