*edit* Wow this is huge if he is right. If he is and the hold out problem can be sufficiently mitigated than we dont just have a model for solving the max block size problem, this will by default also solve the problem of how to decentralize the entire internet.
I must relevate a certain point about this, before I introduce us to a very important "person".
I suspect also that "Satoshi" foresaw this. And in fact contacted ted Nelson (and consulted him) to let him know somehow and in some form his dream will in fact become a reality. I suspect then that his video of who he thinks Satoshi is, is a very humbled and heartfelt T. Nelson. We must keep in mind I am the world best poker player (although I truly wish I didn't feel I had to proclaim it).
And we must see this all in relation to this memo from Dr. Nash, we are clearly building this:
This memorandum concerns some ideas for new designs of the control system in high-speed digital computers. The ideas are yet in an immature and rather unspecific form, but this is a subject that deserves some attention and thought for the future. Indeed the idea is more or less futuristic and is more appropriate for the "electronic brains" of the future than for the computers now used, or under construction, or even planned. The basic idea is simple. Instead of having a single control unit sequencing the operations of the machine in series (except for certain subsidiary operations as certain input and output functions) as is now done, the idea is to decentralize control with several different control units capable of directing various simultaneous operations and interrelating them when appropriate.
Let us consider some of the advantages of this sort of development of computing (and data processing) machines.
1. Speed of computation
2. Expansibility
3. Self-Maintenance
4. Ease of programming, the "intelligence" quality, ability It is interesting to consider what a thinking machine will be like.
It seems clear that as soon as the machines become able to solve intellectual problems of the highest difficulty which can be solved by humans they will be able to solve most of the problems enormously faster than a human. In closing, the human brain is a highly parallel setup.
It has to be."