This direction shows promise. I think you should take your fiction further along this angle: maybe something Charles Stross's Laundry Files or William Gibsonian or SCP.
Naturally, you should continue your style of pretending your fiction to be non-fiction. I have high hopes. -Chris On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:35 AM, A. T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > Since Mentifex/Arthur here is not a frequent contributor to the > AGI list (i.e., not posting "at least once per week") and is more > of an unappreciated/underappreciated instigator of long-ago AGI > breakthroughs only gradually coming to full fruition (21dec2012?), > I thunk I would share with the here-abouts brain(t)rust something: > > [START OF ARCHIVAL COPY OF E-MAIL SENT A FEW MINUTES AGO] > > Dear [Unknow Russian AGI] Perevodchik, > > If you are to enter Russian AI forums and leave links to > > http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html > > you would only need to understand one all-important snippet > of the Russian-language JavaScript AI code as shown below: > > ****** SNIPPET OF CODE FROM RUSSIAN VerbPhrase MODULE ********** > > if (verblock > 0) { // already a verblock? 24oct2011 > ruLexicon[verblock].ruExam(); // examine row in array; 5jan2012 > verbpsi = ru0; // grab the verbpsi; test; 28aug2012 > audbase = ru8; // parameter for VerbGen to call AudBuffer; 29aug2012 > dba = prsn; // parameter for VerbGen; 30aug2012 > vphraud = 0; // until a known verb is found; 14sep2012 > for (i = t; i>midway; i--) { // search for verb-form; 28aug2012 > ruLexicon[i].ruExam(); // examine Russian lexicon; 28aug2012 > // Following code accepts only a verb-form matching three > // requirements: [ ]same concept; [ ]num(ber); and [ ]person: > if (ru0==verbpsi && ru2==nphrnum && ru4==prsn) { // 3sep2012 > vphraud = ru8; // VerbPhrase auditory engram tag; 7sep2012 > // gencon = 1; // keep other verbs from SpeechAct; 5sep2012; 15sep2102 > apb = "Activating auditory engram of verb #"+ru0+" at t = "+vphraud; > Voice(); // 15sep2012 > break; // one instance is enough; 29aug2012 > } // end of test to find regular or irregular verb-form; 10sep2012 > } // end of loop in search of correct verb-form;; 14sep2012 > if (vphraud==0) { // as if else-clause for the verb-search; 14sep2012 > gencon = 1; // prevent usual call from VerbPhrase to SpeechAct. > if (verbpsi != 800) { // avoid be-verbs; test; 10sep2012 > phodex = 0; // prevent carry-over values; 14sep2012 > VerbGen(); // generate the verb-form needed to think in Russian. > } // end of test for be-verbs; test; 10sep2102 > } // end of quasi-else-clause to call VerbGen; 14sep2012 > } // end of test for a positive verblock; 24oct2011 > > ********************* END OF SNIPPET OF CODE ******************* > > The above snippet of simple JavaScript code makes it possible > for the Dushka program to think in Russian with correct verbs. > > On each Russian AI forum, in your "Profile" as a member, > you could state your offerings as a professional translator > of Russsian and you would gradually become famous as the > learned interpreter of Mentifex artificial intelligence. > > Just think it over. > > Bye for now, > > Arthur Ted > > [END OF COPY OF E-MAIL SENT MOMENTS AGO TO RUSSIAN AGI-INTERPRETER] > > -- > http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3557513-6c926498 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
