Thinking in promises
Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn’t matter whether we’re talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a da...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly Media, Inc
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629921806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Letter to the Reader""; ""Chapter 1. Promises and Impositions""; ""Promise Engineering""; ""From Commands to Promises""; ""Why Is a Promise Better than a Command?""; ""Autonomy Leads to Greater Certainty""; ""The Observer Is Always Right""; ""Culture and Psychology""; ""Nonlocality of Obligations""; ""Isn't That Quasi-Science?""; ""Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?""; ""The Main Concepts""; ""How Much Certainty Do You Need?""; ""A Quick User Guide""; ""Just Make It Happen""; ""An Exercise""; ""Chapter 2. With a License to Intend""
- ""An Imposition Too Far""""Reformulating Your World into Promises""; ""Proxies for Human Agency""; ""What Are the Agencies of Promises?""; ""What Issues Do We Make Promises About?""; ""What Things Can Be Promised?""; ""What Things Can't Be Promised?""; ""The Lifecycle of Promises""; ""Keeping Promises""; ""Cooperation: The Polarity of Give and Take""; ""How Much Does a Promise Binding Count?""; ""Promises and Trust Are Symbiotic""; ""Promoting Certainty""; ""Some Exercises""; ""Chapter 3. Assessing Promises""; ""What We Mean by Assessment""; ""Kinds of Promise Assessment""
- ""Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers""""Relativity and Levels of Perception""; ""Inferred Promises: Emergent Behaviour""; ""How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles""; ""The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes""; ""Human Reliability""; ""The Eye of the Beholder""; ""Some Exercises""; ""Chapter 4. Conditional Promises-and Deceptions""; ""The Laws of Conditional Promising""; ""Local Quenching of Conditionals""; ""Assisted Promises""; ""Conditional Causation and Dependencies""; ""Circular Conditional Bindings: The Deadlock Carousel""
- ""The Curse of Conditions, Safety Valves""""Other Circular Promises""; ""Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking""; ""Some Exercises""; ""Chapter 5. Engineering Cooperation""; ""Engineering Autonomous Agents""; ""Promisees, Stakeholders, and Trading Promises""; ""Broken Promises""; ""What Are the Prerequisites for Cooperation?""; ""Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?""; ""Mutual Bindings and Equilibrium of Agreement""; ""Incompatible Promises: Conflicts of Intent""; ""Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum""
- ""Agreement as Promises: Consensus of Intent""""Contractual Agreement""; ""Contracts and Signing""; ""Agreement in Groups""; ""Promoting Cooperation by Incentive: Beneficial Outcome""; ""The Stability of Cooperation: What Axelrod Said""; ""The Need to Be Needed: Reinterpreting an Innate Incentive?""; ""Avoiding Conflicts of Interest""; ""Emergent Phenomena as Collective Equilibria: Forming Superagents""; ""Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent""; ""Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?""; ""When Being Not of One Mind Is an Advantage""; ""Human Error or Misplaced Intent?""
- ""Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization""
