Markets don’t need to ‘transmit information’ at all to the observer, in order to be both useful and intelligent. For example, if aliens, who’ve never seen a single human or single word of human language, came by and inspected the Earth, left, then came back decades later, the changes physically observable to their sensors and associated derivations, would be.
Maybe not in the sense of an active biological intelligence but certainly in the sense such as ‘The pyramids of Giza demonstrates their builder’s intelligence’.
but in order to implement a market, information (trade offers and trades) need to be transmitted. that’s what I was referring to as an information bottleneck.
Sure, but that doesn’t matter to the alien observers, or anyone if they had the equivalent expertise and sensors. They can still gleam a super-intelligent equivalent amount of knowledge.
“or anyone if they had the equivalent expertise and sensors” includes humans on Earth...
e.g. a lone hunter-gather living in a cave for a long period, coming out to survey the world with the latest tools and then going back into their cave and lifestyle with only the results.
Markets don’t need to ‘transmit information’ at all to the observer, in order to be both useful and intelligent. For example, if aliens, who’ve never seen a single human or single word of human language, came by and inspected the Earth, left, then came back decades later, the changes physically observable to their sensors and associated derivations, would be.
Maybe not in the sense of an active biological intelligence but certainly in the sense such as ‘The pyramids of Giza demonstrates their builder’s intelligence’.
but in order to implement a market, information (trade offers and trades) need to be transmitted. that’s what I was referring to as an information bottleneck.
Sure, but that doesn’t matter to the alien observers, or anyone if they had the equivalent expertise and sensors. They can still gleam a super-intelligent equivalent amount of knowledge.
i’m not sure what you’re responding to. I don’t think I made a claim to which the behavior of aliens would be relevant.
“or anyone if they had the equivalent expertise and sensors” includes humans on Earth...
e.g. a lone hunter-gather living in a cave for a long period, coming out to survey the world with the latest tools and then going back into their cave and lifestyle with only the results.