Alain,
When will you realize that people are never satisfied and there's no use in 
trying to please everyone?
Cheers,
~PM
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> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:30:56 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [agi] partial definition:
> 
> Matt Mahoney wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>                  f(I) --> s
> > At last! All of the complexity of human civilization reduced to a
> > simple equation. We are saved! The singularity is imminent!
> 
> Look, people were flaying me alive for not defining the problem. 
> Defining use cases for AGI is just silly so I came up with a general 
> definition for the problem.
> 
> There, I defined a part of the problem.
> 
> See? It's defined!!
> 
> So what do people do?
> 
> Complain that the part of the problem that I defined doesn't cover 
> another part of the problem which I explicitly did not define. I am, 
> after all, talking off-hand on a mailing list.
> 
> Now you are pretending that my formal statement of the problem, which 
> people had been pestering me about, is actually a claimed solution. It 
> is merely a formal statement of the problem.
> 
> Goddamnit, people! When are you going to produce anything other than 
> absurdly inflated cost estimates?
> 
> hmmmmmmmzers, I just had a brainstorm about how I could develop a good 
> candidate for f() without much additional hardware.
> 
> oops lost it. =P
> 
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