Ben, I told you 100 times, such comments, warnings and guidelines have no effect ;)
AT Sent from my iPad On Jul 8, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > In general, I think it would be good if subgroups of people sharing certain > AI intuitions could carry out a discussion on this list, with others > listening in and contributing occasionally, but with others NOT repetitively > chiming into the discussion with comments of the basic meaning "By the way, I > told you guys 100 times before that your paradigm sucks, so why do you keep > on pursuing it?!" > > For example, I would be happy to listen in on others' discussions on analog > computing approaches to AGI, making technical comments or asking technical > questions occasionally; and I would not feel the need to interrupt these > discussions repeatedly with comments of the form "Why don't you guys adopt my > preferred AGI paradigm instead!!" > > This is almost making me feel motivated to create a set of posting guidelines > for the list ;p .. but, not quite... > > -- Ben G > > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Russell Wallace <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > OK, perhaps we should just stay here and distinguish "weak AGI" where people > attempt to somehow leverage data point computation into an intelligent > process as now seems to be the norm on this forum, and "strong AGI" where we > attempt to move up to whatever metalevel is at least as high as our brains > operate on, and which can also conceivably be performed by plausibly > manufacturable hardware, albeit not anything like present CPUs. > > Any problem with those terms? > > Yes, 'strong AI' already has an established meaning, denoting the aim of > producing a fully human level mind (by whatever method), as opposed to 'weak > AI' which merely aims to make computers smarter and more useful than they > currently are. > > Besides, you don't exactly need a PhD in psychology to figure out that many > people will object to the word 'weak' being applied to their line of > research! Personally I don't care about that so much as about the fact that > your proposed usage is highly uninformative. > > Until you get enough like-minded people to start a separate mailing list, I > would recommend coming up with a more descriptive term for your proposed line > of research. > AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
