Mike, On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote:
> ** > It's weak AGI, Steve. You have to start somewhere, and you have to start > simple. > My point was that while a tractor may be interesting, it is not on the way to building a supercomputer. > A robot that can navigate any terrain of a given kind is a general machine > - something that doesn't exist. > It's called a farm tractor. Once you put them in gear, they can crawl over almost anything. > An extraordinary breakthrough. > > Now here's a simple bet for you - you can't give me a single practical > example of what the AGI you are talking about will do. > Uploading/downloading may be worth MORE than the combined wealth of the entire earth!!! How? because people would borrow on their futures to be "alive" to have a future. > You're talking about this-and-that maths, but you haven't got a clue about > any practical problems - demonstrably AGI problems - that your maths would > apply to. > There are some challenges with the concept of "practical". Our world already has enough good machines for us all to live a good life. Beyond that, you are looking more at "valuable" than "practical", where the measure is whatever people will pay money for, regardless of what the item does. Here, uploading/downloading is clearly the really BIG winner. Given the financial success of cryonics, you don't have to actually have it working for it to be valuable - just have an apparently clear development path. Steve ------------------------------------------- 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
