[agi] Waiting to gain information before acting

2008-09-21 Thread William Pearson
I've started to wander away from my normal sub-cognitive level of AI, and have been thinking about reasoning systems. One scenario I have come up with is the, foresight of extra knowledge, scenario. Suppose Alice and Bob have decided to bet $10 on the weather in the 10 days time in alaska whether

Re: [agi] Waiting to gain information before acting

2008-09-21 Thread Pei Wang
There are several issues involved in this example, though the basic is: (1) There is a decision to be made before a deadline (after 10 days), let's call it goal A, written as A? (2) At the current moment, the available information is not enough to support a confident conclusion, that is, the

Re: [agi] Waiting to gain information before acting

2008-09-21 Thread Pei Wang
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:15 PM, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/21 Pei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are several issues involved in this example, though the basic is: (1) There is a decision to be made before a deadline (after 10 days), let's call it goal A, written as A?