So one requirement is to factor in Human readability. ~PM > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:12:48 -0700 > Subject: Re: [agi] Event Models > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Linux usage is tiny on the desktop, but the desktop seems to be > shrinking rapidly in relevance, and the numbers for linux everywhere > else are much higher than 1% of the market. > > Other topic... when I was writing cobol I could screen print some > logic and show it to the client. Try that with Lisp, C etc. Steve > does have a certain point. Nobody is saying COBOL is a candidate for > AGI languages (!) but at least the designers WANTED it to be readable > and not arcane. Thet partly succeeded. > > Mike A > > > On 10/15/14, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't remember where I was the 97% figure > > > > However, Linux dominates mobile, and has a clear majority of webservers as > > well > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Servers_on_the_Internet > > > > -- Ben > > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Would you be surprised if a ragtag group of OSS developers made a > >> > better > >> OS > >> > than Microsoft, IBM or Apple -- one used to power 97% or so of the > >> Internet > >> > ? > >> > >> Actually the market share for Linux is 1.64%. > >> > >> http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 > >> > >> And the total development effort is quite substantial, similar to > >> Windows. The difference is in how the work is funded. In the open > >> source model, information has negative value. You sell yourself by > >> giving away your work. > >> > >> I think a distributed AGI can be funded this way too. But only if > >> there is some compelling reason to use it before it is fully > >> developed. > >> > >> > I don't think an AGI has to pretend to be human ... > >> > >> Yes, we agree on that. Unless we are talking about applications like > >> uploading or identity theft. But once we solve the problem of modeling > >> human minds, it is a simple matter to program them to carry out their > >> predictions of your actions in real time. > >> > >> -- > >> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > > > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > > depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > > 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/303/19999924-4a978ccc > 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
