It is interesting that Mike is talking about banning honest preliminary work that wasn't based on a special protocol of his own making. Jim Bromer
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > If people were banned from doing science until they had a proof of > concept, how would they ever do the work needed to create the proof of > concept? ;-p > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ben: > > > > If scientists were banned from proceeding based on intuition, until > > they had convinced > > skeptics of their methodology and ideas, nearly all science would halt... > > > > If they were banned until they could produce a proof of concept, however > > basic, it might not be such a bad thing! It would have saved you and > others > > a decade or two of life.. AFAIK there isn't a proof of concept for any > > would-be AGI project, is there? Hence the validity of Deutsch's > "everyone > > is on the wrong track..." A proof of concept protocol would prevent that > > happening. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > > Modify Your Subscription: > > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10561250-470149cf > 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
