Re: [singularity] Defining the Singularity

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
Starglider wrote: I have no wish to rehash the fairly futile and extremely disruptive discussion of Loosemore's assertions that occurred on the SL4 mailing list. I am willing to address the implicit questions/assumptions about my own position. You may not have noticed that at the end of my

Re: [singularity] Defining the Singularity

2006-10-25 Thread Starglider
My apologies for the duplication of my previous post; I thought my mail client failed to send the original, but actually it just dropped the echo from the server. Matt Mahoney wrote: Michael Wilson wrote: Hybrid approaches (e.g. what Ben's probably envisioning) are almost certainly better than

Re: [singularity] Motivational Systems that are stable

2006-10-25 Thread Anna Taylor
The last I heard, computers are spied upon because of the language the computer is generating. Why would the government care about the guy that picks up garbage? Richard Loosemore wrote, Wed, Oct 25, 2006: The word trapdoor is a reference to trapdoor algorithms that allow computers to be spied

Re: [singularity] Defining the Singularity

2006-10-25 Thread Matt Mahoney
- Original Message From: Starglider [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: singularity@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:32:27 PM Subject: Re: [singularity] Defining the Singularity All AGIs implemented on general purpose computers will have access to 'conventional computing capability'