Re: [agi] request for feedback

2003-08-14 Thread Philip Sutton
Hi Mike, Conceptual necessity .. Bosons, fermions, atoms, galaxies, stars, planets, DNA, cells, organisms, societies, information, computers, AGI's, the Singularity, it's all inevitable because of conceptual necessity. I think that what you are talking about is not conceptual

[agi] Partnership Negotiation.

2003-08-14 Thread inecman
From: Chief Olusegun Akanni Director of Finance and Accounts Department Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attention: The Managing Director Subject: Partnership Negotiations Before reading this letter, I will like you to visit the below web sites for verification of the

Re: [agi] request for feedback

2003-08-14 Thread deering
Arnoud, not exactly theanthropic argument: Conceptual necessity - There is a concept out there which is the root of all reality. It is not a person, an entity, or a mind. It is a concept like the idea that circular logic doesn't prove your point or mutually contradictory percepts cannot

Re: [agi] request for feedback

2003-08-14 Thread arnoud
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 14:59, deering wrote: Arnoud, I don't know how much help this will be considering I am an amateur, like you. Your AGI system looks good to me. I think we will find, in time, that many different approaches to AGI will work, though some may be more efficient than

[agi] sick of AI flim-flam

2003-08-14 Thread Brad Wyble
A tiny rant about bogus AI. I was depressed to find this site: http://www.intelagent.org/ and another by the same snakeoil salesman (Sol Endelman) http://hardwear.org/personal/PC/ See that pencil drawing of the wearable computer? Lifted straight from the MIT Mithril project website. I'm

[agi] Highly parallel reconfigurable computing

2003-08-14 Thread Emeka Okafor
Would "highly parallel reconfigurable computing" as described on http://www.starbridgesystems.com/index.html be a better substrate for implementing Novamante? I'm curious, Emeka To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to

Re: [agi] Perl AI Weblog

2003-08-14 Thread Brad Wyble
The open source concept to AI, which is essential what you are doing here, is a very interesting one. However, the open source success stories have always involved lots of tiny achievable goals surrounding one mammoth success (the functional kernel). i.e. there were many stepping stones

Re: [agi] Highly parallel reconfigurable computing

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, It´s possible that their hardware would help with Novamente. I emailed with them a couple years ago, though, and it was pretty clear that their systems were still in a research phase, not ready for use in heavyweight applications. A couple other drawbacks I discovered then -- applications

[agi] Partnership Negotiation.

2003-08-14 Thread oluaka
From: Chief Olusegun Akanni Director of Finance and Accounts Department Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attention: The Managing Director Subject: Partnership Negotiations Before reading this letter, I will like you to visit the below web sites for verification of the

[agi] Emotion needed in decision making

2003-08-14 Thread Emeka Okafor
New paper on the need for emotion and cognitioninteraction in learning and decision making: http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume4/gadanho03a/gadanho03a.pdf To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL

Re: [agi] request for feedback

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Sondergaard
Hello Arnoud Michel. Greetings from London. I'm taking a different approach to A.I. from you, so I won't comment on your ideas about A.I. You wrote : Maybe a bit more about my motivation: Snip of philosophical ideas. As far as I understand your philosophical ideas, I think the questions

Re: [agi] Perl AI Weblog

2003-08-14 Thread Arthur T. Murray
Brad Wyble wrote on Mon, 11 Aug 2003 The open source concept to AI, which is essential what you are doing here, is a very interesting one. However, the open source success stories have always involved lots of tiny achievable goals surrounding one mammoth success (the functional kernel).

[agi] brainstorm: a new vision of uploading

2003-08-14 Thread king-yin yan
Hello Everyone I have been thinking about uploading for a long time, especially the gradual uploading approach, which I like. But this approach brings up one issue which is the continuity of the soul problem. People who opt for a destructive upload would gain a first-move advantage over others.

Re: [agi] request for feedback

2003-08-14 Thread deering
Arnoud, I don't know how much help this will be considering I am an amateur, like you. Your AGI system looks good to me. I think we will find, in time, that many different approaches to AGI will work, though some may be more efficient than others, and some may be easier for us to

[agi] Perl AI Weblog

2003-08-14 Thread Arthur T. Murray
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires extreme programming efforts, whether in Perl or in other XYZ programming environments. http://mind.sourceforge.net/perl.html is the new Perl AI Weblog. No matter which AI language you favor, please accept the challenge of coding a main Alife Mind