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

[agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Abram Demski
Hi everyone, Most people on this list should know about at least 3 uncertain logics claiming to be AGI-grade (or close): --Pie Wang's NARS --Ben Goertzel's PLN --YKY's recent hybrid logic proposal It seems worthwhile to stop and take a look at what criteria such logics should be judged by. So,

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Abram Demski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of my BPZ-logic... 2. Good at quick-and-dirty reasoning when needed Right now I'm focusing on quick-and-dirty *only*. I wish to make the logic's speed approach that of Prolog (which is a fast inference algorithm

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
Prolog is not fast, it is painfully slow for complex inferences due to using backtracking as a control mechanism The time-complexity issue that matters for inference engines is inference-control ... i.e. dampening the combinatorial explosion (which backtracking does not do) Time-complexity

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] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Pei Wang
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Abram Demski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Most people on this list should know about at least 3 uncertain logics claiming to be AGI-grade (or close): --Pie Wang's NARS Yes, I heard of this guy a few times, who happens to use the same name for his

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Abram Demski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people on this list should know about at least 3 uncertain logics claiming to be AGI-grade (or close): --Pie Wang's NARS --Ben Goertzel's PLN --YKY's recent hybrid logic proposal It seems worthwhile to stop and take a look

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Kingma, D.P.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:00 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --a. Makes unwarranted independence assumptions Yes, I think independence should always be assumed unless otherwise stated -- which means there exists a Bayesian network link between X and Y. Small question...

Re: [agi] self organization

2008-09-17 Thread Terren Suydam
That is interesting. Sorry if I was short before, but I wish you would have just explained that from the start. Few here are going to be familiar with linux install tools or the communities around them. I think a similar case could be made for a lot of large open source projects such as Linux

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Abram Demski
Good point, this applies to me as well (I'll let YKY answer as it applies to him). I should have said conditional independence rather than just independence. --Abram On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Kingma, D.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:00 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin)

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Abram Demski
YKY, Thanks for the reply. It seems important to me to be able to do more than just the fast reasoning. When given more time, a reasoning method should reconsider its independence assumptions, employ more sophisticated models, et cetera. By the way, when I say markov model I mean markov chain as

Re: [agi] uncertain logic criteria

2008-09-17 Thread Abram Demski
Pei, You are right, that does sound better than quick-and-dirty. And more relevant, because my primary interest here is to get a handle on what normative epistemology should tell us to conclude if we do not have time to calculate the full set of consequences to (uncertain) facts. It is

[agi] Re: [OpenCog] Proprietary_Open_Source

2008-09-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/9/17 JDLaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IMHO to all, There is an important morality discussion about how sentient life will be treated that has not received its proper treatment in your discussion groups. I have seen glimpses of this topic, but no real action proposals. How would you feel if

[agi] Re: [OpenCog] Re: Proprietary_Open_Source

2008-09-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
Lets take the opencog list off this email, and move the conversation to the agi list . 2008/9/17 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: James, I agree that the topic is worth careful consideration. Sacrificing the 'free as in freedom' aspect of AGPL-licensed OpenCog for reasons of AGI safety and/or the