That's really interesting, and didn’t think about using Chinese symbols This opens up the story a lot. I also never thought about inventing a language/symbol system, but I bet computers wouldn't communicate in English if they did have AGI.
To answer your question, I was just using English! Challenges of the story: J-max32--This is a 24th century 3-D image scanner but it doesn't have as the same capabilities as the SNbraCAD. SNbraCAD--this is the current 25th century 3-d image scanner, and it translates images into "meaningful" data, instead of just data. ----Whenever a human interprets an input, the signal needs to be translated several times before it becomes a meaningful experience. So, in the same manner, when giving an AGI data, the data set needs to be translated into a workable language/symbol system, and the SNbraCAD automatically translates data into the AGI language system. A very useful and efficient invention for the AGI's, indeed! ----------------------------- I just had a conversation with a friend, and she brought up a really good point that I never really thought deeply about. What happens after humans upload their minds to computers? What happens when our own minds reach a singularity and we start learning things without consciously being aware of it. And don't say that we'll always be aware of everything once we're digitized, because there will be a limited space of cognition. What happens after we've figured everything out, after a few million, or billion, or trillion years? Moreover, is it possible to run out of things to do, why and why not? People gotta have different views about this, I could think of at least 2 arguments for each view. Lastly, the notion of non-ending existence is suddenly incredibly frightening, not because it wouldn't be fantastic, but because of the implications it has on our desire to live forever, the purpose of AGI, and the belief that death is bad. -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Surowitz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:20 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Question Chinese has approximately 64000 characters, if you in include all ideograms that have been found in historical documents; to uniquely label each by a number you need twice as many 8-bit bytes. Also doubling again to include all known human language symbol systems. So: what is the current language/symbol system in your cyborg's world? On 3/14/2013 10:06 AM, Schwartz, Daniel wrote: > Thanks, > > Also, after a quick search I found this pretty cool calculation: > > This is also giving me a clearer understanding to what Matt Mahoney is > really discussing. > > Apetabyteis 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2^50 ) bytes, 1,024 Terabytes, or > 1,048,576 Gigabytes. > > ·*938,249,922,368*pages ofplaintext > <http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/plaintex.htm>(1,200 characters) > > ·*4,691,249,611*books (200 pages or 240,000 characters) > > ·*357,913,941*digital pictures (with 3MB average file size) > > ·*268,435,456*MP3 audio files (with 4MB average file size) > > ·*1,651,910*650MB CD's > > ·*239,400*4.38GB DVD's > > ·*41,943*25GB Blu-ray discs > > *From:*Russell Wallace [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:57 AM > *To:* AGI > *Subject:* Re: [agi] Question > > Well text is commonly stored as one byte per character, so 10^15 characters? > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Schwartz, Daniel > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Does anyone know how many characters 1 petabyte of text would be? > > I’m writing a story about the history of image scanners from the > perspective of a cyborg from the 26^th century. > > I’m at a section where I’m claiming that a full explanation of the > history would take up 1 petabyte worth of characters, so it needs to > be condensed in the manner I(the > cyborg) is illustrating. > > ++ > > If anyone figures it out, could you also provide your calculation, I’d > be very interested to see how that works. > > *AGI*| Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> | > Modify Your > Subscription<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f5 > 3d1a3f> > > > > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> > > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> > > *AGI| Archives| ModifyYour > Subscription<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f5 > 3d1a3f>* > > > > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> > > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/12987897-64924e57> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your > Subscription [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/303/24010057-f37fa9ab 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-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
