[agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Richfield
disputes. Providing some mechanized intelligence is a service and a hope for mankind's future sanity, and the only threat that I see is that some true believers in the truly absurd will truly get ground under AGI's wheels, as they truly should. Any thoughts on all this? Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Stephen, On 4/10/08, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:58:09 PM Subject: [agi] Comments from a lurker... [snip] BTW, the principles behind Dr. Eliza

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Richfield
on what the perfect AI programming language would be like, but that is a different subject... Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Richfield
, when the tools are in place to fully utilize the sorts of things that you are looking to develop. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
exclusional reasons include: 1. Where are your paying customers? 2. What prior University research is this built upon? 3. Where is your intellectual property protection? 4. Where am I going to find other investors with whom to share the risk? Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
Josh, On 4/12/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 03:17:21 pm, Steve Richfield wrote: Steve: If you're saying that your system builds a model of its world of discourse as a set of non-linear ODEs (which is what Systems Dynamics is bout) then I

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
that extraction) and we certainly don't need any more here, on what should be a safe forum to express our ideas. Ben Goertzel, are you awake here? This one is in YOUR court. Steve Richfield -- Original Message - *From:* Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
when you finally wake up as discussed above. Steve Richfield == - Original Message - *From:* Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42 PM *Subject:* Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Mike, On 4/12/08, Mike

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Steve Richfield
and a high cholesterol you probably wouldn't have lived much longer anyway, so why should they pay for any lost income? Only a month ago I saw this sort of crap happen to a severely injured lady I know (different details, same idea) - and it probably cost her several hundred thousand dollars! Steve

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-15 Thread Steve Richfield
Josh, On 4/15/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008 04:56:18 am, Steve Richfield wrote: ... My present efforts are now directed toward a new computer architecture that may be more of interest to AGI types here than Dr. Eliza. This new architecture

Re: [agi] associative processing

2008-04-15 Thread Steve Richfield
applications. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered

Re: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-15 Thread Steve Richfield
of absolute brilliance. Thanks for your comment. Steve Richfield == On 4/15/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I kind of disagree with this attitude, too conformist and over assuming. I've seen too many flaked out freakazoids have tiny grains of absolute brilliance sprinkled

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On 4/16/08, Benjamin Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield said (regarding his Dr Eliza system): I cannot see ANY argument that it is NOT novel AI. Certainly no one expressed any such doubts at the WORLDCOMP conferences where it was presented and demonstrated. Maybe

Re: [agi] associative processing

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Richfield
Josh, On 4/15/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008 07:36:56 pm, Steve Richfield wrote: As I understand things, speed requires low capacitance, which DRAM requires higher capacitance, depending on how often you intend to refresh. However, refresh

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Richfield
requirements may be well short of a petaflop. Of course, this makes a LOT of assumptions that no one has yet bothered to confirm in the laboratory, and I do NOT want to ignite an estimates war, so I invite constructive comments from anyone with more recent data than I have. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Richfield
is a LOT easier. Note that there are NO expert-entered percentages in the Knowledge.mdb, which seems to result in BETTER operation because experts almost as often lead things astray with myths as guide things with overriding wisdom. Steve Richfield --- agi

Re: [agi] associative processing

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Richfield
Derek On 4/16/08, Derek Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield, writing about J Storrs Hall: You sound like the sort that once the things is sort of roughed out, likes to polish it up and make it as good as possible. I don't believe your characterization is accurate. You could

Re: [agi] Sending attachments to the list

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Richfield
they are clicked on. Who the heck uses POP3 with dialup? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com

Re: Computational requirements of AGI (Re: [agi] database access fast enough?)

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Richfield
lacked for SO long. Hence, view these efforts as a sort of atom-smasher for understanding reality, rather than just relying on unsupported words in old dusty books. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed

Re: Open source (was Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!)

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Richfield
that there must be a few poor souls out there (besides us) who just haven't woke up yet to this very sad current state of affairs. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: Open source (was Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!)

2008-04-21 Thread Steve Richfield
wrong. Have I missed something here? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret

Re: [agi] Random Thoughts on Thinking...

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Richfield
to be separately defined in terms that are conducive to implementation. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Random Thoughts on Thinking...

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Richfield
approximation to what should be expected from evolution. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Other AGI-like communities

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Richfield
here who better understands these other groups (you or Samsonovich?) could provide a paragraph (and hyperlink) about each to aid is this triage. Thanks for the info. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed

Re: [agi] Random Thoughts on Thinking...

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Richfield
Vladimir, On 4/24/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, some situations are more prone to superstitious learning than others. Religious explanations are a beautiful example of this - where

Re: [agi] Random Thoughts on Thinking...

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Richfield
, but this will probably never be a one pill fixes all sort of thing. Obviously, as with all things broken, you must fix whatever is actually broken. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Random Thoughts on Thinking...

2008-04-26 Thread Steve Richfield
Vladimir, On 4/24/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you that you can't just consider something to be true or false based on a few observations, but you DO have to make binary decisions

Re: [agi] Random Thoughts on Thinking...

2008-04-26 Thread Steve Richfield
(currently rare for RD efforts) to more accurately target the future market that our competitors will be doomed to miss because of their lack of research. Is this the sort of message that you think needs to be conveyed? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http

Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...]

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Richfield
as novices, making unusual and apparently stupid moves that I can't quite capitalize on, only to pull things together later on and soundly beat me. While retrospective analysis would show them to be brilliant, that would not be my evaluation early in these games. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...]

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Richfield
Matt, On 5/6/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have played tournament chess. However, when faced with a REALLY GREAT chess player (e.g. national champion), as I have had the pleasure of on a couple of occasions, they at first

Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...]

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Richfield
component. What is a LOGICAL goal?! Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret

Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...]

2008-05-08 Thread Steve Richfield
just as logical (if not more so)than atheism. Do you agree? Thank you. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http

Re: Newcomb's Paradox (was Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers)

2008-05-08 Thread Steve Richfield
Matt, On 5/8/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/01/newcombs-proble.html After many postings on this subject, I still assert that ANY

Re: Newcomb's Paradox (was Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers)

2008-05-09 Thread Steve Richfield
this, but which don't work properly with control characters, UNICODE characters that should be considered to be whitespace (e.g. long spaces), etc. Clearly, some intelligent humans haven't yet mastered this algorithm, and ordinary software testing methods have failed to disclose the remaining bugs. Steve

Re: Newcomb's Paradox (was Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers)

2008-05-10 Thread Steve Richfield
fine - and that it is ME who needs debugging. I wonder how a super duper AGI will even get debugged, once the operation of the program goes beyond its all-too-human programmers. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now

Re: [agi] The Messy World [for Steve R]

2008-05-13 Thread Steve Richfield
it would doom the drug companies that now so completely control all current medical research. If you know anyone with a lot of money and who wants to do some REAL research, then please send them my way. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Richfield
16th birthday from one of my patients. I precede any (rare) prescriptions with words like please request that your medical doctor prescribe the following: knowing that they will probably just order it over the Internet, etc. Steve Richfield == Steve: I am right now up against

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Richfield
fixing when there is only one. Is the above discussion what you were looking for? Steve Richfield = Mike, On 5/14/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more or less where I came into this group. You've picked a, if not the, classic AGI problem. The problem

[agi] AGI and Wiki, was Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Richfield
not perfect (it would have been nice to lance the abscess), was sufficiently successful to save its life. This serves to highlight the value of incorrect theories, that they often provide the right answers in a timely manner, even when for the wrong reasons. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Richfield
. Wouldn't medical insurers have the greatest interest of all in establishing a super-medical-wiki? Kaiser would seem to be the PERFECT user for this. However, the present medical paradigm is SO ingrained in their very structure that I haven (yet) seen a way past the barriers. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-17 Thread Steve Richfield
. Thanks. Steve Richfield *From:* Steve Richfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2008 9:38 PM *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence Hi y'all, I can still remember an incident when I was just 13

Re: An AGI is supposed to be able to understand [WAS Re: [agi] AGI and Wiki...]

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Richfield
Richard, On 5/18/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield wrote: I have a headache. I missed my morning coffee. From this, Dr. Eliza will see a present-tense headache, a present-tense negated (presumed consumption) of coffee. A link definition would look

Re: An AGI is supposed to be able to understand [WAS Re: [agi] AGI and Wiki...]

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Richfield
Richard, On 5/18/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield wrote: large snip With luck we can wring things out at this level. With a little less luck, a couple of weeks of attempted high-level design will lead you to these same conclusions. With no luck at all, you

Re: An AGI is supposed to be able to understand [WAS Re: [agi] AGI and Wiki...]

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Richfield
to process. Has anyone else done this sort of homework? Steve Richfield = On 5/18/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, On 5/18/08, *Richard Loosemore* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield wrote

Re: [agi] The sound of silence (or is that science?)

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Richfield
open to arguments that I might not have heard or considered. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Steve Richfield
Joseph, On 5/20/08, Joseph Gentle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, decades later, come the present discussions about patterns, apparently advanced along with the same lines of thought that was behind that IQ test so

Re: [agi] Design Phase Announce - VRRM project

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Richfield
should look at a common design? - Keyboard, mouse and display virtual devices as well as extensible models for people to build their own I'd be more interested in speech, tactile, and/or genuine 3-D I/O. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http

Re: Merging threads was Re: Code generation was Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Richfield
can debug the disconnect? I will (attempt to) clarify, not to argue my points (again), but more to explain that I was really saying something different than you apparently read. On 5/27/08, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield said: A useful AGI must be able to rise above its own

Re: [agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Richfield
by the *true* AGI believers here. Does anyone here want to throw a virtual stone? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http

Re: [agi] Design Phase Announce - VRRM project

2008-05-28 Thread Steve Richfield
William, On 5/27/08, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/27 Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Systems now crash NOT because of the lack of some whiz-bang technology, but because architectural development has been in a state of arrested development for the last ~35 years

Re: [agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-29 Thread Steve Richfield
some reason to expect a breakthrough? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Live Forever Machines...

2008-06-01 Thread Steve Richfield
. ??? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox

Re: [agi] Live Forever Machines...

2008-06-01 Thread Steve Richfield
that even if the most minimal goals are achieved, that an investment here would at minimum produce some VERY valuable lab equipment. In short, this should be a moneymaker, even if it proves to be a complete failure for AGI. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives

Re: [agi] Neurons

2008-06-02 Thread Steve Richfield
with adequate funding. By that time, process improvements would probably allow us to make such systems on single wafers, at a manufacturing cost of just a few thousand dollars. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303

Re: [agi] Neurons

2008-06-03 Thread Steve Richfield
Vladimir, On 6/3/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that modern processors are ~3 orders of magnitude faster than a KA10, and my 10K architecture would provide another 4 orders of magnitude

Re: [agi] Neurons

2008-06-03 Thread Steve Richfield
in their operation, and you probably need to figure out substantially all ~200 of those tricks to achieve human intelligence. If I were an investor, this would sure sound pretty scary to me without SOME sort of insurance like scanning capability, and maybe some simulations. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Neurons

2008-06-04 Thread Steve Richfield
it would have already evolved during the last ~200 million years, instead of evolving the highly complex creatures that we now are. That having been said, I will comment on your posting... On 6/4/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 09:54:53 pm, Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Neurons

2008-06-04 Thread Steve Richfield
can do a perfect job without such debugging, but having been in the computer business just as long as you have, I have seen WAY too many problems to ever believe in such miracles. Steve Richfield === On Wednesday 04 June 2008 03:15:36 pm, Steve Richfield wrote: Josh, I apparently

[agi] Paradigm Shifting regarding Consciousness

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Richfield
operation is probably NOT enough to design a human-scale AGI from, ESPECIALLY when paradigm shifting is being done that effectively hides our actual operation. I believe that more information is necessary, though hopefully not an entire readout of a brain. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] Reverse Engineering The Brain

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Richfield
on identical twin lab mice showed. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=103754539

[agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Steve Richfield
with some gray hair and/or bald spots, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Steve Richfield
into code. Hence, I am NOT rejecting the idea of code being intelligent, just the idea of us mere mortals ever writing and maintaining such code, at least with our present tools. Steve Richfield === On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
codes. Perhaps you could better define what you mean by complexity to obviate my questions? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
doubt the future of any AGI system. In short, I have produced my demo and presented it to International audiences at AI conferences, and hereby return this particular ball to your court. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
some of the more valuable goals, but has yet to raise any money, shows that the world is NOT looking to beat a path to this better mousetrap. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
on the author's computer. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=103754539

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
provides many touch points for capability to show whether an AGI is working anything at all like us. So yes, cognitive science is alive and well, but probably unusable to provide a basis for AGI development. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http

Re: Cognitive Science 'unusable' for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...]

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
information for AGI folks. All I was saying is that somehow, someone needs to do this work. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http

Re: [agi] Nirvana

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
of detailed goals. In Iraq there was near-peace under Saddam Hussein, but we didn't like his methods. I suspect that reasonable improvements to his methods would have produced far better results than the U.S. military can ever hope to produce there, given anything like its present goals. Steve Richfield

Re: [agi] More brain scanning and language

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
manipulation by AGIs, and hence new logic will be needed, e.g. reverse reductio ad absurdum. This distorts the entire optimality discussion. Steve Richfield === On 6/11/08, J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Mark Waser wrote: It is an open question

Re: [agi] Plant Neurobiology

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
appetizers with their lobster tail dinners. Steve Richfield = On 6/11/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10plant.html?pagewanted=2_r=1ei=5087emen=484cb A really interesting article about plant sensing. A bit O/T here but I'm

Re: [agi] Nirvana

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
in attendance. This of course was an illustration of the military fire control issue. Am I missing something here? Steve Richfield = On 6/12/08, Jiri Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and here we have

Re: [agi] World domination, but not killing grandchildren (was Re: Paper: Artificial Intelligence will Kill our Grandchildren)

2008-06-14 Thread Steve Richfield
World Order, rather than simply negotiating reasonable resolutions. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Nirvana

2008-06-14 Thread Steve Richfield
, on the other hand, would probably be your ideal customer. Maybe I could trade a repaired AGI for one of Dave's old cars? However, I can't see dedicating my life to making Dave happy in his indolence. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] World domination, but not killing grandchildren (was Re: Paper: Artificial Intelligence will Kill our Grandchildren)

2008-06-15 Thread Steve Richfield
those win-sin solutions. Statement 2 though has promise... Yes - once you drill down into religious disputes, they pretty much fall apart. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-21 Thread Steve Richfield
intelligence will resolve all (as many/most here seem to believe) IMHO is a rookie error that leads nowhere useful. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-21 Thread Steve Richfield
of the code goes to support speech I/O, the USENET interface, etc., and NOT its core problem solving ability. Steve Richfield === On 6/21/08, Abram Demski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be honest, I am not completely satisfied with my conclusion on the post you refer to. I'm not so sure now

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-22 Thread Steve Richfield
useful. Steve Richfield --- I don't think that most people in this group think that machine intelligence will resolve all the remaining problems in designing artificial intelligence, although I have talked to people who feel that way, and the lack of discussion

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Richfield
empirical evidence because of lack of proof or political incorrectness? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-24 Thread Steve Richfield
are correct. Also, I had many fewer employers, as I had a LOT of repeat business. These would sometimes bring me in for a couple of weeks of shock treatment when they felt it was needed. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-25 Thread Steve Richfield
already been written about, it would sure be nice to fast-forward over past writings. Steve Richfield = - Original Message From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 10:53:07 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Approximations

Re: [agi] As we inch closer to The Singularity...

2008-06-25 Thread Steve Richfield
might drop in and request a copy of the software and post it here. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Can We Start Somewhere was Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-26 Thread Steve Richfield
in mind. Of course, future AGIs are doomed to fail at such efforts, just as people have failed for the last million years or so. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Richfield
now have access to, because of this multiplicative effect. IMHO, illogical researchers were looking for an illogical (to them) phenomenon that was in fact completely logical. Jim's God Steve Richfield === On 6/27/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim's God was obviously

Re: [agi] Can We Start Somewhere was Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Richfield
as on this forum, presume that more intelligence is needed to solve more difficult problems, when relatively simple programs can exceed any potential unguided intelligence, at least in some/many interesting domains (e.g. health/medicine). Steve Richfield --- agi

Re: [agi] Can We Start Somewhere was Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Richfield
not be familiar with, e.g. the type of cause-and-effect chain link that the described phenomenon represents. This would all be SO simple to do... Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-06-28 Thread Steve Richfield
of things that are VERY applicable to our present economy. Summarizing: The U.S. won't be around very much longer, so there is little reason for Al Queda to waste any more martyrs attacking it. Steve Richfield === Isn't this sort of behavior completely logical? If you try something new

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-06-28 Thread Steve Richfield
). However, the advanced methods that I advocate have only been in existence for a few years, and apparently no State Department employees understand them yet. Hence, Reverse Reductio ad Absurdum has yet to be tested. Steve Richfield Mike, WOW, you covered a LOT of territory

Re: Formal proved code change vs experimental was Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Richfield
to really start this discussion? Steve Richfield === On 7/3/08, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about the long thread jack 2008/7/3 Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it is dealing

[agi] Is anyone else here going to WORLDCOMP08?

2008-07-04 Thread Steve Richfield
Hi All, Is anyone else here going to WORLDCOMP08? That is in Las Vegas from July 14-17. It would sure be nice to discuss things at talking speed rather than typing speed. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now

Re: [agi] Is clustering fundamental?

2008-07-06 Thread Steve Richfield
at this thing all wrong. Can anyone here help? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] The Advance of Neuroscience

2008-07-08 Thread Steve Richfield
by various theories, and with producing physical diagrams of brains to guide theoretical efforts. At present, there is not one dollar of funding for either of these efforts, so I expect to stay at the 2 micron point for the foreseeable future. Steve Richfield On 7/8/08, Mike Tintner

Re: Intelligence explosion [was Fwd: [agi] Equivalent of the bulletin for atomic scientists or CRN for AI?

2008-07-09 Thread Steve Richfield
belong on this list? Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret

Re: Formal proved code change vs experimental was Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-07-09 Thread Steve Richfield
William, On 7/7/08, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/3 Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: William and Vladimir, IMHO this discussion is based entirely on the absence of any sort of interface spec. Such a spec is absolutely necessary for a large AGI project to ever

Re: [agi] The Advance of Neuroscience

2008-07-09 Thread Steve Richfield
quantitative analysis, which in turn awaits improved laboratory equipment and methods. Steve Richfield On 7/9/08, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, et al, When you look at the actual experiments upon which what we think we know is based, the information is SO thin

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-07-10 Thread Steve Richfield
was my situation. Having now helped several others through this, using successively improving methods, I have learned to control the risks to health to a reasonably acceptable level. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Richfield
? Hyperlinks? Thanks a LOT for your thoughts here. Steve Richfield --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Computing's coming Theory of Everything

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Richfield
this, and the retired math professor would have a better idea as to exactly what needed to be optimized. Steve Richfield = On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, On 7/22/08, Benjamin Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You

Re: [agi] Computing's coming Theory of Everything

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Richfield
PC-like analysis. Steve Richfield On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abram, On 7/22/08, Abram Demski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem Statement: What are the optimal functions, derived from real-world observations of past

Re: [agi] Computing's coming Theory of Everything

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Richfield
Abram, All good points. Detailed comments follow. First I must take a LONG drag, because I must now blow a lot of smoke... On 7/22/08, Abram Demski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abram, On 7/22/08, Abram Demski [EMAIL

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