Don't get me wrong I am glad this book exists and I am not disappointed on
reading it. Compared to 1000's of other manuals and softwares I've gone
through this is incredibly unique, like a work of art. The passion,
sincerity and imagination in the book is admirable. OK I wouldn't take this
as
The signal/noise ratio on this list is starting to get pretty bad.
And why do people always quote the entire prior message in their
responses? Is it so hard to highlight and delete?
--
Michael Anissimov
Lifeboat Foundation http://lifeboat.com
http://acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog
Different people have different ways of communicating. Many Murray posts
are sprinkled with annoyances but then they do have some intelligence and
wisdom. They remind me of a W. C. Fields like way of speaking with some
Snake Oil salesmanship. Actual Snake Oil BTW can be good for certain things
a doctoral dissertation, trigger a Singularity
Different people have different ways of communicating. Many Murray posts are
sprinkled with annoyances but then they do have some intelligence and wisdom.
They remind me of a W. C. Fields like way of speaking with some Snake Oil
salesmanship
He definitely has a great vocabulary you have to admit and he is a good
showman. Also his critiques of others writings is interesting and humorous
as well. As far as the technical validity of his AI project I don't know
because I'm still struggling with the ASCII diagrams J
John
From:
Universal compassion and tolerance are the ultimate consequences of
enlightenment
which one Matt on the list equated IMHO erroneously to high-orbit
intelligence
methinx subtle humour is a much better proxy for intelligence
Jean-Paul
member of the 'let Murray stay' advocacy group aka 'the write
The scholar and gentleman Jean-Paul Van Belle wrote:
Universal compassion and tolerance are the ultimate
consequences of enlightenment which one Matt on the
list equated IMHO erroneously to high-orbit intelligence
methinx subtle humour is a much better proxy for intelligence
Jean-Paul
Why is Murray allowed to remain on this mailing list, anyway? As a
warning to others? The others don't appear to be taking the hint.
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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This list is
Personally, I find many of his posts highly entertaining...
If your sense of humor differs, you can always use the DEL key ;-)
-- Ben G
On 5/20/07, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is Murray allowed to remain on this mailing list, anyway? As a
warning to others? The others
On 5/20/07, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I find many of his posts highly entertaining...
If your sense of humor differs, you can always use the DEL key ;-)
-- Ben G
I initially found it sad and disturbing, no, disturbed.
Thanks to Mark I was able to see the humor
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