Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Richfield
Bryan, *I'm interested!* Continuing... On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Bryan Bishop kanz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Steve Richfield wrote: Note my prior posting explaining my inability even to find a source of used mice for kids to use in high-school anti-aging

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread David Jones
This seems to be an overly simplistic view of AGI from a mathematician. It's kind of funny how people over emphasize what they know or depend on their current expertise too much when trying to solve new problems. I don't think it makes sense to apply sanitized and formal mathematical solutions to

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, Genescient has NOT paralleled human mating habits that would predictably shorten life. They have only started from a point well beyond anything achievable in the human population, and gone on from there. Hence, while their approach may find some interesting things, it is unlikely to find the

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
We have those fruit fly populations also, and analysis of their genetics refutes your claim ;p ... Where? References? The last I looked, all they had in addition to their long-lived groups were uncontrolled control groups, and no groups bred only from young flies. Michael rose's UCI lab

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bromer
David, I am not a mathematician although I do a lot of computer-related mathematical work of course. My remark was directed toward John who had suggested that he thought that there is some sophisticated mathematical sub system that would (using my words here) provide such a substantial benefit to

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread David Jones
Jim, Fair enough. My apologies then. I just often see your posts on SAT or other very formal math problems and got the impression that you thought this was at the core of AGI's problems and that pursuing a fast solution to NP-complete problems is the best way to solve it. At least, that was my

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bromer
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:53 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think it makes sense to apply sanitized and formal mathematical solutions to AGI. What reason do we have to believe that the problems we face when developing AGI are solvable by such formal representations? What

[agi] Scalable vs Diversifiable

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Isn't it time that people started adopting true AGI criteria? The universal endlessly repeated criterion here that a system must be capable of being scaled up is a narrow AI criterion. The proper criterion is diversifiable. If your system can say navigate a DARPA car through a grid of city

Re: [agi] Scalable vs Diversifiable

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bromer
I don't feel that a non-programmer can actually define what true AGI criteria would be. The problem is not just oriented around a consumer definition of a goal, because it involves a fundamental comprehension of the tools available to achieve that goal. I appreciate your idea that AGI has to be

Re: [agi] Scalable vs Diversifiable

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bromer
I think I may understand where the miscommunication occurred. When we talk about scaling up an AGI program we are - of course - referrring to improving on an AGI program that can work effectively with a very limited amount of referential knowledge so that it would be able to handle a much greater

Re: [agi] Scalable vs Diversifiable

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Tintner
To respond in kind ,you along with virtually all AGI-ers show an inability to understand or define the problems of AGI - i.e. the end-problems that an AGI must face, the problems of creativity vs rationality. You only actually deal in standard, narrow AI problems. If you don't understand

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bromer
I've made two ultra-brilliant statements in the past few days. One is that a concept can simultaneously be both precise and vague. And the other is that without judgement even opinions are impossible. (Ok, those two statements may not be ultra-brilliant but they are brilliant right? Ok, maybe

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread David Jones
Slightly off the topic of your last email. But, all this discussion has made me realize how to phrase something... That is that solving AGI requires understand the constraints that problems impose on a solution. So, it's sort of a unbelievably complex constraint satisfaction problem. What we've

Re: [agi] Re: Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bromer
I guess what I was saying was that I can test my mathematical theory and my theories about primitive judgement both at the same time by trying to find those areas where the program seems to be good at something. For example, I found that it was easy to write a program that found outlines where

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, It seems COMPLETELY obvious (to me) that almost any mutation would shorten lifespan, so we shouldn't expect to learn much from it. What particular lifespan-shortening mutations are in the human genome wouldn't be expected to be the same, or even the same as separated human populations. Hmmm,

RE: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-11 Thread John G. Rose
Well both. Though much of the control could be remote depending on bandwidth. Also, one robot could benefit from the eyes of many as they would all be internetworked to a degree. John From: Ian Parker [mailto:ianpark...@gmail.com] Your remarks about WiFi echo my own view. Should a

RE: [agi] Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-11 Thread John G. Rose
-Original Message- From: Jim Bromer [mailto:jimbro...@gmail.com] Well, if it was a mathematical structure then we could start developing prototypes using familiar mathematical structures.  I think the structure has to involve more ideological relationships than mathematical. 

RE: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-11 Thread John G. Rose
I wasn't meaning to portray pessimism. And that little sucker probably couldn't pick up a knife yet. But this is a paradigm change happening where we will have many networked mechanical entities. This opens up a whole new world of security and privacy issues... John From: