Matt: Clearly the very first real AGI System would obsolete the notion of money, artificial scarcity, fear, competition, ego, our competitive zero-um (or rather negative sum) monetary system and capitalism. So posting about the financial aspect of AGI is rather pointless? :-) No "sane" business man with personal short time profit on his mind should be investing in AGI because it would most likely also obsolete all societal asymmetries and the notion of personal profit.
The only way to profit from AGI research is to ensure it never actually arrives at the "G" aspect in AGI. On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>wrote: > I was including myself on the list of people not contributing to AGI. > My research interest is in estimating the cost. One of the techniques > I use is to measure text prediction accuracy (an AI problem) as a > function of computing power. This research takes a long time. Sorry if > it looks like I am not contributing much. > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:26 PM, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matt, > > > > Just so you know, you're another one on this list with the same old > > repetitive arguments. Like your umpteen quadrillion dollar argument, > which > > is financially interesting but you keep harping on it over and over and > do > > little to expand upon and breathe life into it. As well as the endless > > rehashing and fixation of compression as intelligence which is > > mathematically sound in some ways but c'mon man there is more to it than > > that. > > > > Then you say Ben is alone which he is definitely not and you also > > repetitively put down AGI'ers and complain about this and that but you > keep > > posting the same old broken record-like comments. > > > > And your closed mindedness on Psi... > > > > Do you expect optimistic responses to your observations? > > > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > I miss the good old days when there were several people actively > > contributing to AGI, either doing research or writing code. Now there is > > just Ben. So should we just dissolve the list? Or should we keep it > around, > > maybe just to crush the dreams of young grad students excited to work on > > finally solving this age-old problem? > > > > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853 > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23508161-fa52c03c > 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
