Re: [agi] AGI Int'l Relations

2010-07-31 Thread Ian Parker
This echoes my feelings too. There is one other thing too. After my last posting I realized that what I was talking about was general mathematics rather than AI or AGI. Of course Polaris is AI, very much so, but Von Neumann's nuclear war strategy was an evaluation of Minimax. Mind, once you have a

Re: [agi] AGI Alife

2010-07-31 Thread Ian Parker
Adding is simple proving is hard. This is a truism. I would like your opinion on *proofs* which involve an unproven hypothesis, such as Riemann. Hardy and Littlewood proved Goldbach with this assumption. Unfortunately the does not apply. The truth of Goldbach does not imply the Riemann hypothesis.

Re: [agi] No Shit AI

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Archbold
I agree -- these things suck. I have spent time trying to fool the sensor. It brings up the bigger issue of what makes good technology vs. what is not a good use of technology. A lot of technology I simply hate, like digital pictures (intended for some aesthetic use). We have to be selective

Re: [agi] AGI Int'l Relations

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Richfield
Jan, On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jan Klauck jkla...@uni-osnabrueck.dewrote: This brings me to where I came in. How do you deal with irrational decision making. I was hoping that social simulation would be seeking to provide answers. This does not seem to be the case. Have you ever

Re: [agi] AGI Int'l Relations

2010-07-31 Thread Ian Parker
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-jacobson/google-and-cia-invest-in_b_664525.html This is an interesting article. Rather too alarmist though for my taste. This in fact shows the type of social modelling I have in mind. The only problem is that third world countries interactions are *not* on the