On 6/29/19 7:58 AM, Steve Richfield wrote:
Matt, Colin, et al,
The REAL underlying problem is that AGI started too soon - there just
isn't enough known to be able to "fill in the blanks" and build
generally intelligent systems.
All that seems to be needed are a few million dollars and a couple of
years of time by some bright guys, like some of the folks on this
forum. Google spends more that that on coffee.
A few millions dollars and just a couple of years won't be enough to
make AGI. It could be enough to make a tool or methodology useful for
AGI in a century.
But our capitalist system is not optimized for ultra-long-term
investments profitable in a century (if it was, we won't have any global
warming issue on Earth today).
Where is Kurzweil? Where is Bazos? Where is Gates? Ben has started a
bandwagon going nowhere other than AGI Winter, and all the big-money
guys seem to be riding that bandwagon.
and ... I am sitting here watching this slow motion train wreck.
Depressing.
Does anyone here have a few million dollars to spare - to make
quadrillions of dollars in the future?
You won't make them in the future.
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Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a
six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring
back full employment.
Interesting thought. I am French, with (in principle) a 35 working hours
week. When that law was passed, most of the world laughted. And it did
not gave full employment for several reasons: the 35 hours has to paid
as much as the previous 39 hours, and most of the other states did not
follow. My feeling is that if the entire European Union would have
lowered the working week at the same time, things would have been really
different. And AFAIK the effective average working week in the USA has
increased in the last few decades.
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Basile STARYNKEVITCH == http://starynkevitch.net/Basile
opinions are mine only - les opinions sont seulement miennes
Bourg La Reine, France
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