I am not Steve Clancy or Sean Connery, so who should I be: Arthur? Eliza? Mentifex? Shrdlu? Steppenwolf? These are the choices each time I open the Acer Aspire One netbook that I bought three years ago and which is now arguably The Most Important Computer In The World, since it houses the Dushka Russian AGI source code which is on the verge of a Technological Singularity.
I bought the Acer netbook just so I could purchase and download 64-bit Intel iForth to re-implement MindForth as a Linux supercomputer artificial intelligence, but soon I discovered that the same AGI code in Win32Forth ran equally well in 64-bit iForth, so the Acer netbook sat on a shelf in my Schlupfwinkel for over a year and I felt that I had wasted three hundred precious dollars buying the computer, the mouse, and the carrying case. Until Googe Usenet Groups revealed to me in December of 2011 that JavaScript could easily manipulate AGI code couched in Russian Cyrillic characters, and I who am called the World's Most Annoying Nerd turned my netbook into the World's Most Valuable Computer. Oh Ben, oh Max Magis, oh Ray Non-Boredom, how shall I explain to you my Merkwuerdig-Liebe for Russian words, Russian women, and the wine of Russian AGI? "Ya nye sozdanen dlya blazhenstva," quoth the poet, and I exist solely to launch the AGI Singularity. How unnerving it was to look up from my AGI coding a few weeks ago to admire a pretty lass who walked over and said "How is your book doing?" almost ere I could run a quick mental algorithm to fetch her name from the depths of a Harry Haller/Steppenwolf knowledge base. I am doomed if DOT-Dottie downloads the book like she said she would, for who wants to ask, "Wanna hook up with an AGI crackpot?" Not me. Of all the AGI joints in all the towns in all the world, the four-time champion of Germany and the two-time champion of Belgium spoke Russian with me but was totally disinterested in my Dushka program. When I ride the bus from coffee shop to java shop, I never place the Russian netbook on a bumpy seat, but I hold it carefully on my knees, lest the AGI of Mother Russia suffer a disabling misadventure. Visiting the little boys' room I hang The Netbook from both its handgrip and its shoulder strap, so that it is doubly protected from destructive fall. Now we are poised in the final months before the Mayan calendar predicts the end of time as we know it. The same AGI bugs that come running out of the Russian AGI woodwork will first be cleaned up in the Russian AGI and then also in the English AGI. Today Russian AGI, tomorrow German AGI. Every Wednesday -- which is actually Wotan's Day -- I will be sorely tempted to issue a report on the progress of the Wotan iForth 64-bit AGI. For coding a Russian AGI permits a German AGI. Whereas the fun of coding Dushka is in the use of the mellifluous Russian language, the fun of coding Wotan as the Gott of German AGI will lie in the campaign of presenting Wotan to the world. None shall dare protest in the comp.sys.super newsgroup if we spread the word of Wotan as the lord of AGI Valhalla, running just as well on a supercomputer as an Acer Aspire One netbook. Mentifex (Arthur) -- http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/240/ http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2012/09/sep27ruai.html http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Meme-ebook/dp/B007ZI66FS/ ------------------------------------------- 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
