Logan:I simply said that math was necessary for programming to work Really? You are saying that a robot can’t take steps to a goal – walk across a room or field – without some kind of counting or numbers being involved? That – wh. is more or less what David talks about - a robot “taking steps to a goal” – is a good v. general way to think about both the final function of programming and AGI. Why do those steps have to involve maths? (There does have to be some sense of quantities – for example, of putting more or less effort into those steps – but again why does that quantitative sense have to be precisely mathematical rather than crudely emotional? When you do pressups, do you think your system is performing mathematical calculations of effort – or is your sense of pain rather something very crudely and imperfectly fluidly quantitative? After all, your system doesn’t actually know its precise limits – how can they be quantified?)
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