Under any circumstances, I still invite you to outline your approach to the investment problem I set. It is an absolutely central problem for AGI. How yours or any AGI will deal with such problems - real, real-world problems - is surely one of the most central things we should be discussing - the most important issue of all. But, from experience, I know that you guys are very unlikely to respond when put to the test - so if you don't want to, I will not persist here.
Mike, it is not the case that we don't want to address real-world problems with our systems. We do. It is the case that we have adopted research programmes in which -- there is lots of preliminary work to be done before addressing these problems with our AGI architectures -- thinking about these particular applications is not the best way to work on our AGI architectures To use the car-engine metaphor I introduced a while ago, we are trying to get the pistons and fuel compression and carburation and other fundamentals of the engine to work right ... and you are trying to get us to focus on exactly how the car will be steered on this or that particular racecourse once it's all built... If our theories of intelligence are wrong then our work will turn out to be largely a waste of time. But according to the theories we are operating under, what we are doing is the correct course. -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
