{"id":563,"date":"2006-09-07T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=563"},"modified":"2006-09-07T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:43:24","slug":"heuristics-for-decentralised-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/09\/07\/heuristics-for-decentralised-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Heuristics for decentralised thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heursitics for decentralised thinking<\/p>\n

(Michael Resnick, ‘Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds’ MIT Press, 1994, p134ff)<\/p>\n

\n1. Positive feedback can be good<\/p>\n

\n
  • Take-off effects\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    2. Randomness can help create order<\/p>\n

    \n
  • comined with positive feedback -> self-causation\n
  • shakes off local minima (annealing)\n
  • prevents worst excesses of exploitation in exploitation-exploration dilemma\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    3. & 4. Emergence<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Need to distinguish between levels\n
  • Not all properties of a system have to be explicitly built in\n
  • Emergent objects may have different properties than their subunits\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    5. The Environment is Active<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Intelligent behaviour doesn’t just rely on agents.\n
  • The environment is dynamic and a source of complexity\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Shalizi review<\/a> of TT&TJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Heursitics for decentralised thinking (Michael Resnick, ‘Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds’ MIT Press, 1994, p134ff) 1. Positive feedback can be good Take-off effects 2. Randomness can help create order comined with positive feedback -> self-causation shakes off local minima (annealing) prevents worst excesses of exploitation in exploitation-exploration dilemma 3. & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-95","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}