Re: Vladimir Nesov [agi] self organization

2008-09-22 Thread e h
of, and it will be a safe, consistant and secure intelligence... We need it. -eh-- Original Message -- To: (agi@v2.listbox.com) From: Vladimir Nesov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: [agi] self organization Date: 9/16/2008 2:55:22a Well, I didn't write in this thread about Friendliness

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-18 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: I think a similar case could be made for a lot of large open source projects such as Linux itself. However, in this case and others, the software itself is the result of a high-level super goal defined by one or more humans. Even if no

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-17 Thread Terren Suydam
OK, how's that different from the collaboration inherent in any human project? Can you just explain your viewpoint? --- On Tue, 9/16/08, Bryan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: Not really familiar with apt-get. How is it a complex system?

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-17 Thread William Pearson
2008/9/16 Terren Suydam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Will, Such an interesting example in light of a recent paper, which deals with measuring the difference between activation of the visual cortex and blood flow to the area, depending on whether the stimulus was subjectively invisible. If the

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-17 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: OK, how's that different from the collaboration inherent in any human project? Can you just explain your viewpoint? When you have something like 20,000+ contributors writing software that can very, very easily break, I think it's an

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-17 Thread Terren Suydam
that model. Terren --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Bryan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bryan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] self organization To: agi@v2.listbox.com Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:23 PM On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: OK, how's that different

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread Vladimir Nesov
Well, I didn't write in this thread about Friendliness (apart from the last two sentences of the last message, which is a hypothetical so impossible I had no right to draw it, really). It is bad terminology to call evolution intelligence, it is a completely different optimization process even if

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread William Pearson
2008/9/15 Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess that intuitively, argument goes like this: 1) economy is more powerful than individual agents, it allows to increase the power of intelligence in individual agents; 2) therefore, economy has an intelligence-increasing potency; 3) so, we can

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Monday 15 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: I send this along because it's a great example of how systems that self-organize can result in structures and dynamics that are more complex and efficient than anything we can purposefully design. The applicability to the realm of designed

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Monday 15 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: By your argumentation, it would seem you won't find any argument about intelligence of worth unless it explains everything. I've never understood the strong resistance of many in the AI community to the concepts involved with complexity theory,

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Will, Such an interesting example in light of a recent paper, which deals with measuring the difference between activation of the visual cortex and blood flow to the area, depending on whether the stimulus was subjectively invisible. If the result can be trusted, it shows that blood flow

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread Terren Suydam
Hey Bryan, Not really familiar with apt-get. How is it a complex system? It looks like it's just a software installation tool. Terren --- On Tue, 9/16/08, Bryan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you considered looking into the social dynamics allowed by apt-get before? It's a

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-16 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Terren Suydam wrote: Not really familiar with apt-get.  How is it a complex system?  It looks like it's just a software installation tool. How many people are writing the software? - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ Engineers:

[agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi all, Came across this article called Pencils and Politics. Though a bit of a tangent, it's the clearest explanation of self-organization in economics I've encountered. http://www.newsweek.com/id/158752 I send this along because it's a great example of how systems that self-organize can

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Terren Suydam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Came across this article called Pencils and Politics. Though a bit of a tangent, it's the clearest explanation of self-organization in economics I've encountered. http://www.newsweek.com/id/158752 I send this

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Mike Tintner
Terren: I send this along because it's a great example of how systems that self-organize can result in structures and dynamics that are more complex and efficient than anything we can purposefully design. The applicability to the realm of designed intelligence is obvious. Vlad: . Even if

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Vladimir Nesov
I guess that intuitively, argument goes like this: 1) economy is more powerful than individual agents, it allows to increase the power of intelligence in individual agents; 2) therefore, economy has an intelligence-increasing potency; 3) so, we can take stupid agents, apply the economy potion to

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Terren Suydam
to intelligence. It would seem to me to be a promising frontier for exploration and gathering insight. Terren --- On Mon, 9/15/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] self organization To: agi@v2.listbox.com Date: Monday, September 15

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Terren Suydam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, I'm not saying that modeling an economy is all that's necessary to explain intelligence. I'm not even saying it's a necessary condition of it. What I am saying is that it looks very likely that the brain/mind

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-15 Thread Terren Suydam
Vlad, At this point, we ought to acknowledge that we just have different approaches. You're trying to hit a very small target accurately and precisely. I'm not. It's not important to me the precise details of how a self-organizing system would actually self-organize, what form that would take