Critical systems monitoring
How do we develop world's critical systems' monitoring, that would enable rapid response and preserve personal liberties and privacy of individuals?
The global emergencies, like the pandemic, brings us to think, how to create rapid and appropriate responses to emergencies, while ensuring individual freedoms we enjoy. The dichotomy arises, when we want to create a decentralized system with the resilience guarantees of a more centralized system.
This question is closely related to making decentralized systems (e.g., P2P systems), that are as resilient like distributed systems (cloud infrastructures), with centralized monitoring.
The question comes from discussions at Foresight Institute, HiveMind workshop.
在自然界中可以找到解決此問題的示例,例如,蜂箱如何響應入侵者的黃蜂,與之相比,蚊子似乎並沒有集體地做出響應,每個蚊子都扮演着獨立的角色。一隻蟻丘可能介於蚊子和蜂箱之間,因爲每隻螞蟻在發揮自己的社會角色時都會發揮自己的自由,將其作爲分化的一部分,類似於性分化,並對入侵者的反應類似於免疫系統對病原體做出反應-向某種類型的媒介(戰士螞蟻或T細胞,發出信號),我們發現當前社會中的人們扮演的角色-醫生,警察等參與了某些類型的威脅。
有趣的是,所有這些系統都依賴於某種類型的識別器和信令。螞蟻會識別諸如信息素之類的信號,而在我們的社會中,我們可能正在識別不同種類的信號。我認爲解決方案的一部分在於開發用於社交信號的字母,並圍繞社交角色進行創新。例如,我們可能需要一個信號(或符號)和一個新興的指數增長識別器。
這樣的符號集和信令模式的特定想法可能是有趣的,並且被建議爲想法。
Examples of solutions to this problem could be found in nature, i.e., how a beehive responds to an intruder wasp, vs., how mosquitoes do not seem to respond collectively, each acting as an independent actor. An ant-hill may be something between a mosquito and a beehive, in that every ant acts with its own freedom, in fulfilling some social role, that it takes as part of differentiation, similar to sexual differentiation, and respond to intruders a bit like the immune system responds to pathogens -- signaling to certain type of agents (warrior ants, or T-cells, and we find people in our current societies that roles -- doctors, policemen, etc.) to engage with certain type of threats.
What's interesting, is that all these systems rely on certain type of recognizers, and signaling. An ant recognizes signals like pheromones, while in our society, we may be recognizing different kind of signals. I'd think part of the solution lies in developing an alphabet for social signals, and innovating around social roles. For example, we may need a signal (or a symbol) and a recognizer of emergent exponential growths.
The particular ideas of such symbol sets and signaling patterns may be interesting, and be suggested as ideas.