> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Richfield [mailto:[email protected]] > > I've pretty much given up on Mike and Sergio who, because they just don't > understand what mathematics is all about, having dismissed it in favor of > numerology's promises. There is absolutely NOTHING that you or I could > possibly say to bring them back from this abyss. Whatever could have been > said to them should have been said decades ago, but wasn't. I blame our > intellectually bankrupt school system, that teaches mathematical techniques > without ever covering what it is really about. As a result, Mike and Sergio are > running in this crazy direction, without an ability to even discuss the issues in > a rational way. >
Numerology LOL. Believe it or not, I'm actually starting to see some merit in Astrology, with astronomical cycles, there is something there worth exploring. And they should teach abstract algebra in grade school and the specifics later. A stub is provided by the basic curriculum, but not much. Computing rationality is glocal I think, akin to compressors sometimes expanding. So irrationality has to be looked at in that way. Perhaps in studying compression we should explore expansion as well in such a way as irrationality should be explored. Most of us here are assuming AGI will be intelligent when in fact it might be stupid, as sometimes exceptionally brilliant individuals are relegated to the fringes of society and may seem irrational. They are operating within different paradigms. Could there be an algebraic structure of action functionals that is the mitigating paradigmatic interloper amongst the various environmental computational models in AGI? Hmm.... John ------------------------------------------- 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
