> It should be painfully obvious to anyone who stands even a ghost of a chance of creating AGI in any form that there is no conceivable way to get smart from processing words...
Or maybe there is. On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 22:54, Alan Grimes via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > To all morons, nitwits, imbiciles and twits. (It's pointless to address > crackpots because they only have a simplex connection to the world.) > > It should be painfully obvious to anyone who stands even a ghost of a > chance of creating AGI in any form that there is no conceivable way to > get smart from processing words... > > YOUR SOFTWARE MUST BE SMART >> SO THAT << IT CAN USE LANGUAGE. > > The smartness comes long before the words. =| > > Take the attached. , it was a popular movie theater amplifier for many > decades... It is in an abstract, formal, symbolic language but it's in > the form of a diagram and not strings of letters. > > Here is a list of questions: > > -> this document uses an archaic version of the language of schematics > that hasn't been used since around 1970. Re-draw it using modern > conventions and simplify redundant components. > > -> What kind of tube is being used as a driver? > > -> Which components are part of the power supply? > > -> For the sake of simplicity the connections for the filament and > heaters are not shown, add a reasonable filament wiring to the drawing. > > -> is your answer to the previous question unique? > > -> What biasing scheme is being used by the power tube? > > -> List two or three things that might improve this design. > > -> Does the design exceed the published limiting values for any part, > which one comes closest? > > -> Given modern capacitors, which parts would you change and what effect > would those changes have on the circuit? > > -> Does circuit have a full-wave rectifier? > > -> What voltages are used by each of the stages in the amplfier? > > -> Does the amplifier include a feedback circuit? > > -> How much resistance did they expect the primary of T2 to have? > > -- > Clowns feed off of funny money; > Funny money comes from the FED > so NO FED -> NO CLOWNS!!! > > Powers are not rights. > -- Stefan Reich BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T4f01e8a4b34d0e2a-M3d984a0b04c20a851ed410de Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
