Sorry for the omission, Mentifex !!

Perhaps it was because I enjoy your posts more ... I have always
considered you a class apart from the garden variety trolls on the Net
;D ...



On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:17 AM, A. T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ben Goertzel (or someone in possession of his password) ranted:
>>
>>I agree with Matt's analysis, regarding the AGI list
>>
>>For a while we had a greater number of experienced, "professional" AGI
>>researchers on here (not trying to discount the value of newbies, just
>>making an observation).  But they mostly, got driven away via the
>>trolling, for example by
>>
>>-- Mike Tintner posting his technically-illiterate anti-AGI rants
>>whenever he sees keywords that grab his attention, even if he doesn't
>>have the background to understand the points being made
>>
>>-- Matt Mahoney responding to such a wide variety of posts with the
>>same repetitive content regarding his own approach to AGI, his
>>estimate of the cost of AGI
>>
>>-- a spate of posts a while back about how someone had received the
>>secret to solving P=NP via divine inspiration
>>
>>-- a spate posts about how AGI would be rapidly solved if people would
>>just heed a certain someone's advice about modifying their body
>>temperature
>>
>>etc. etc. etc. [...]
>
> Hey, you left out Mentifex (Arthur) extraordinarily claiming
> that "AI has been solved" and demonstrated with such AGI's as
>
> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html -- in English;
>
> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html -- In Russian!
>
> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt -- in Forth.
>
> A Ph.D. friend of mine is desperate for cash and I am
> on the verge of hiring him to represent the Mentifex
> Russian AI project in various Russian AI forums.
>
> The progress in Russian AI is about to re-appear as
> Wotan, the all-powerful German AI Gott in Valhalla!
>
> So stop this defeatist talk of "waning", pleeze.
>
> Mentifex (Arthur :-)
>
>
>
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