Frankly, Jim, definitions are for wankers. The last resort of s.o. who doesn’t want to get anywhere.
Your ideas about algorithms’ powers are fictional. There isn’t an algorithm in the world that isn’t mindblowingly limited – that just “builds” Lego houses and no other kind of structure, or “cooks” one set of dishes and nothing else. Take just about any verb you like – “travel”, “fly”, “calculate”, “compute,” “translate,” et al – and an algorithm will only be able to do one hyperspecialised version, compared to the infinite possibilities. Show us something actual and general/creative, with new elements, that algos can do - or please stop wasting air. From: Jim Bromer Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 3:13 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] ONE EXAMPLE Mike, How many times does it take to get this idea across to you. You are confusing a primitive definition of algorithm - which might be currently acceptable to many people - as a fundamental notion of the characterization of a computer program. Jim On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: P.P.P.S. Just to ram this home - UNLESS you do something like I’ve suggested, (and I know none of you have) - a) tackle a proper creative problem (and what better than geometrical/math ones for you?) - (you don’t have to come anywhere near solving it, just have a go at it), and then b) try and algorithmise/systematise your thinking - unless you do that, you will NEVER understand AGI. If you do, note what is the “set of elements”/options to be thought about here? (there never is one). AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
