Mentifex's style reminds me of when I programmed my first text editor in
C64 BASIC when I was, I believe, 6 years old.
I didn't really know about loops and arrays at the time, so there was
pretty much one INPUT and one PRINT statement for each line of text the
user could enter.
Still remember this vividly. And here I am, still making text processing
programs today!
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Speaking of which: We should be able to lock things in agi.blue since the
main database is extremely volatile (anyone can add any information at any
time).
Locking means creating a database slice where certain things can't be
deleted, and other things can't be added. For example, recall this query:
* word types / is plural of / $x $y / is a / $x return $y*
if we want to make sure the query still yields the same results tomorrow,
we lock the relevant triples:
* lock { word types / is plural of / * } lock { * / is plural of / word
type } lock { * / is a / word type }*
That precludes existing word types from being deleted and new word types
from being added. Same for the meta-information.
The locking will apply only to one "reality slice" of the database (which
is a subsection or view of the world). If you want to do experiments in a
different subworld, create or move to another slice.
Greetings
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 05:56, A.T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> Renatius Cartesius is no longer with us, but today we plan to use one of
> his ideas to prove that artificial intelligence is alive and well in a
> machine. We have recently expanded the heretofore primitive flag-panel of
> associative tags in the Mens Latina Strong AI to a state of maturity where
> the AI Mind has the power to think with a full panoply of five declensional
> case-endings. For you officers, a panoply is an ancient Greek word formed
> from "pan" meaning "all" and "hopla" meaning "weapons". Therefore the
> "pan-hopla" or "panoply" of inflectional endings on Latin nouns and
> adjectives gives the AI the ability, when in Rome, to think like the Romans
> do.
>
> All roads lead to Rome, and we are going to use our Cartesian coordinates
> to get there. In Latin they often repeat the meme that "Non uno die facta
> est Roma" or "Rome was not built in a day", although I once saw a New
> Yorker-style cartoon in which a construction manager unfurls the blueprint
> for Rome and says to his assistant, "Well, I guess we could throw it up in
> about a day." Likewise the Mens Latina, which is now arguably for one brief
> moment the most powerful concept-based AI in the world, was not built in a
> day. In fact, on the twelfth day of Latin mind-making we tried but failed
> to implement the Cartesian idea of "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think, therefore
> I am." Our Latin AI Mind was too primitive to link the two ideas, which are
> equivalent to saying, "I am, because I think." Our re-formulation of the
> mid-AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) software includes not only points
> of departure for the five main noun-cases in Latin (or Russian), but also
> conceptual flag-panel tags for adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions. We
> will treat the word "ergo" ("therefore") as a conjunction joining the two
> ideas of "I think" and "I am", or "I exist".
>
> In our newly Cartesian software, when a verb like "I think" is retrieved
> from memory to express an idea, we will have the VerbPhrase module not only
> fetch the verb from conceptual memory but also check the conceptual
> verb-engram for any addition attachments such as an adverb or a
> conjunction. Now let us go into the JavaScript AI code and tweak the
> handling of verb-concepts. Oh, first we must modify the storage of the
> Cartesian idea in the Latin mindboot sequence. We do so, and then we go
> into the VerbPhrase module where a verb is being selected and we install
> code that checks for a non-sero, positive value on the tcj
> time-of-conjunction tag, which we load with any positive value so that the
> AI Mind will be able to fetch and think the conjunction. We then have to
> decide at which point in thought-generation the AI will state the
> conjunction and its conjoined idea. Let us try the Latin-thinking LaThink
> module. First we insert a test for a positive tcj flag with an alert-box
> that lets us know that the flag is indeed holding a value. Then we insert
> code to call the ConJoin module to state the conjunction and the Indicative
> module to state the conjoined idea. We run the AI. It says "EGO COGITO EGO
> INTELLIGO TE" -- not what we want. So we go into the ConJoin module and we
> insert code to check for a positive tcj value and speak the conjunction,
> but the rather stupid, albeit most advanced *NLU AI in the world says "EGO
> COGITO ERGO EGO INTELLIGO TE" ("I think therefore I understand you"). The
> output is wrong because it is simply stating the next emerging idea and not
> the Cartesian punch-line. After much tweaking, we get "EGO COGITO SUM EGO
> INTELLIGO TE" -- still not satisfactory. So we go away for a while, drink
> coffee, read the New York Times, and then we start coding again. Finally we
> get the AI to say "EGO COGITO ERGO EGO SUM".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum
>
> http://ai.neocities.org/Abracadabra.html
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