Re: [agi] META: spam? ZONEALARM CHALLENGE

2007-06-13 Thread David Orban
R. Schwall set up the filter on the incoming emails, so that it is triggered by the sender. The filter could be changed so that it allows all messages with [agi] in the subject through, but it is not something that the list owner or any of us can do, just R. Schwall. The message doesn't luckily

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Waser
I hardly think that's matter given that it's a truly a Singularity-class AI. Do you sit around calculating which of your grandparents deserves the most credit for bringing you into being? No, you take care of them as they need it. Thank you too, Josh -- maybe I was too cynical in thinking

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Waser
A successful AI could do a superior job of dividing up the credit from available historical records. (Anyone who doesn't spot this is not thinking recursively.) Yay! Thank you! ( . . . and to think that last night I decided to give up on the topic. But don't worry, I'll still punt on it.

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Waser
YKY, I think that I'm going to take this opportunity to give up on this conversation for the following reasons: Come on, there're no obvious reasons for this complex issue. I have to disagree. There *ARE* certain things that really should be obvious if you get it. To put it another

Re: [agi] META: spam? ZONEALARM CHALLENGE

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Waser
It's a white-list. Click on the button and it will stop harassing you. - Original Message - From: David Orban To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [agi] META: spam? ZONEALARM CHALLENGE R. Schwall set up the filter on the incoming

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
If you're not proposing a better scheme for collaboration, and you criticize my scheme in a non-constructive way, then effectively you're just saying that you're not interested in collaborating at all. And that's kind of sad, given that we're still so far from AGI. YKY, I think there are two

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
To organize average people to work together you have to give rewards. Finally, I really, *really* don't believe this either (unless you want to insist that the satisfaction of a challenge met or a job well done -- or the warm fuzzy that you get when you help someone -- are rewards). You don't

[agi] The Decade of the Mind Symposium Videos have been posted!

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Waser
http://www.gmu.edu/thinklearn/decade-mind-videos.html I particularly recommend Giulio Tononi, PhD, MD Consciousness and the Brain Dharmendra Modha, PhD Towards Engineering the Mind by Reverse Engineering the Brain and, even though I disliked the first 15 minutes . . . . Vernon Smith, PhD,

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread James Ratcliff
Whihc compiler did you use for Human OS V1.0? Didnt realize we had a CPP compiler out alreadyh Jiri Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Here is a program that feels pain. I got the logic, but no pain when processing the code in my mind. Maybe you should mention in the pain.cpp

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread James Ratcliff
Overall measures are per-module as well, so a basic DB-access module would only get 1% to distrubute to all its lines of code, as it has little originiailty and is well known code. Samantha Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No LOC based credit please. That measure is totally bogus. Ten lines

RE: [agi] poll: what do you look for when joining an AGI group?

2007-06-13 Thread Derek Zahn
9. a particular AGI theoryThat is, one that convinces me it's on the right track. Now that you have run this poll, what did you learn from the responses and how are you using this information in your effort? - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whihc compiler did you use for Human OS V1.0? Didnt realize we had a CPP compiler out alreadyh The purpose of my little pain-feeling program is to point out some of the difficulties in applying ethics-for-humans to machines. The program has

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 6/13/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If yes, then how do you define pain in a machine? A pain in a machine is the state in the machine that a person empathizing with the machine would avoid putting the machine into, other things being equal (that is, when there is no higher goal

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 6/13/07, Lukasz Stafiniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If yes, then how do you define pain in a machine? A pain in a machine is the state in the machine that a person empathizing with the machine would avoid putting the machine into, other

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread Jiri Jelinek
Mark, VNA..can simulate *any* substrate. I don't see any good reason for assuming that it would be anything more than a zombie. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/ unless you believe that there is some other magic involved I would not call it magic, but we might have to look beyond

RE: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread John G. Rose
Even if YKY was to succeed in coming up with a new hybrid organizational structure, which could likely happen as there are definitely opportunities for innovation judging by existing structures, there still needs to be the traditional open source project that everybody and his brother(or sister)

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Lukasz Stafiniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/07, Lukasz Stafiniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If yes, then how do you define pain in a machine? A pain in a machine is the state in the machine that a person empathizing with

Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.

2007-06-13 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 6/14/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would avoid deleting all the files on my hard disk, but it has nothing to do with pain or empathy. Let us separate the questions of pain and ethics. There are two independent questions. 1. What mental or computational states correspond to