It is not suicidal to set goals and a remark like that shows that you are on the wrong track. Just because the goals that we are most interested in may be elusive that does not mean that we cannot use goal strategies to help us learn what is achievable and acceptable. The irony of course is that once we discover more realizable goals we usually find that our previous goals were not only not realizable but they were really not that desirable.
Pursuing unclear goals are not the path you choose. Evidently, you have to decide whether that is a path you would like to take. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > *Jim: So if a goal is clearly definable (for an AGi program)...* > ** > *No goals are clearly definable in AGI – at the program level as opposed > to in particular situations. What are the goals of real world activities – > like conversation/ reading [science/lit..] books..? You can set goals in > particular situations ... “I want Chinese tonight” But in general, it > would be suicidal and isn’t possible. AGI is about creative machines > dealing with a creative world – in which both the machine and the world > keep changing, and there is no way of predicting what food (or other goal > instantiations) will be available, or what of the vast untried number of > cuisines might be worth sampling, or what condition/state your body will be > in and therefore what foods it will be attracted to . The goals of an AGI > have to be general, vague and capable of continuous refinement - and new > combinations with other goals.* > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10561250-470149cf> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <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-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
