Report on the Grant Proposal
So I just read the grant proposal. It looks like we’re definitely going to be using PUSH — the proposal is pretty centered around it. What we’re attempting is one half of the software engineering side of the proposal, the other half being general productivity applications (for address books etc). It also doesn’t seem like the proposal is that centered around the actual economic algorithms being useful in economics. It’s more that large, complex economic games are a good fitness test for robust intelligence (because they’re difficult to solve arithmetically) and allow nicely for multiple elements interacting with each other.
One of the project’s large goals is human competitiveness wherever possible. Near the end of the proposal is also a three-year timeline for the project, which includes the generation of the fitness tests as well as the creation and application of the programs.