RE: Note on "branching schemes" and the Resilience protocol
I know the research there may not be applicable to Ethereum but I figured I'd share it because it's techniques may be relevant to a future version of your the Resilience concept. The protocol itself eventually can be evolved algorithm by algorithm, just as automatic algorithm invention shows the concept. My current research topics include "program synthesis", "synthetic diversity" and "automatic algorithm invention" all which can provide benefits. The benefit of program synthesis is you can have what for lack of a better description I will call an automated programmer. The users, group, or individual would specify their requirements by describing what they want the computer to do and the computer automagically codes it up. This might not produce very efficient code but for something like protocol synthesis or synthetic diversity perhaps it would work? Synthetic diversity is useful for security purposes where if you have hackers trying to break your protocol by having slight mutations you would be able to know they might be able to break or attack one but another mutation might actually be immune if they try the exact same attack over and over (which usually is the case). Automatic algorithm invention you are aware of already, it allows the computer or machine intelligence to evolve an algorithm solution to fitness. It's a way for example to deal with situations where no precise calculation can give you a perfect fit and where the trial and error approach becomes necessary in which case the most fit is an approximation due to there being no known optimal solution. Vision is a lot like that for instance and has to be evolved but so is for instance camouflage or designs for aerodynamics or ergonomics. As far as I know, no one is seriously researching these topics in crypto space because when I Google for instance "program synthesis Ethereum" I find nothing, or "synthetic diversity blockchain" I find nothing. Okay not nothing, but only one article.
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