I put in a backorder and found out  igi.org t was gone afterwards. Doh.
Does the predation have to start so soon? There's always a shark.
OK. I'll ask. May take a while.
Dorian... It's your name. Have you any alternatives if this shark turns out
to be too hungry?
Leave it there for the moment.a
:-)
colin


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]> wrote:

> The domain name owner can be contacted at the e-mail address
> [email protected].  Ask him how much he wants for the domain.
>
> We can always just grab a free domain name and change later once the
> organization gets going.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Colin Hales <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I didn't buy igi.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The igi.org domain no longer seems to be offering its self for sale
>>> when I visit it.  Did someone buy it already?
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Colin Hales <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Logan,
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Logan Streondj <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 09:48:03AM +1000, colin hales wrote:
>>>>> > Sorry about the previous empty. Phone issue. 10 thumbs.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > My particular flavour of the non-computer approach is irrelevant. I
>>>>> am not pushing my own at all.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Robot $ and kind irrelevant. I have the math you speak of. Wrong on
>>>>> both counts.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I do not care what kind of NC-AGI arises. All I know is that NC-AGI
>>>>> important, neglected and needs a champion.
>>>>>
>>>>> okay so obviously you are the champion.
>>>>> Why is it important?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because it's never been done.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> you guys have been talking about it for a week now,
>>>>> and I still have no idea why you think it has value.
>>>>>
>>>>> like lets be honest here, anything that isn't a computer or
>>>>> technology is biology.  so what you are really talking about
>>>>> (seems to me) is biological-AGI, or connecting a vat of
>>>>> brain-cells to a computer.
>>>>> this has been done, and can play simple video games.
>>>>> but so can deep neuronets on computers.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No it is not necessarily biology. H-AGI can use biological material or
>>>> make inorganic versions of the biological substrate. Mine is totally
>>>> inorganic.
>>>>
>>>> And while hooking bio material to other hardware has been done, it has
>>>> not been done by anyone headed in the direction of an AGI. Pure wet
>>>> neuroscience? Yes. Machine learning? Yes. Robot control? Yes. This
>>>> particular approach is not what I intend. Dorian may be more interested in
>>>> that. I don't want to stop anyone doing any of it just because it clashes
>>>> with my own vision of it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > So please set anything you think you know about me or my approach
>>>>> aside. You actually know almost nothing and what little that is is
>>>>> irrelevant to what is happening in this thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> okay so do you have some kind of proprietary secret approach?
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking you can Dorian can sign an NDA and then no one
>>>>> will ever know about anything you guys do.
>>>>>
>>>>> personally I think that there are a lot of potential ethical
>>>>> issues with using biological mediums for computation, also they
>>>>> aren't particularly scalable or portable.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can see scalability. I can see portability. I can see generativity.
>>>> It will be clunky at first like all new ideas. It has an organic and an
>>>> inorganic aspect. All untried as H-AGI.
>>>>
>>>> Both Dorian and I have written up and published everything that is
>>>> needed to get your head round the fundamentals, which I know can be hard to
>>>> see for those without the biophysics. We have both argued for a long time,
>>>> one way or another, that the approach is novel. The one-liner explanation:
>>>>
>>>> *H-AGI is where the brain physics essential to an AGI is identified and
>>>> included in an AGI substrate. This is achieved by actually replicating the
>>>> physics (organic/inorganic, doesn't matter) and including that physics on
>>>> the substrate then and testing its performance against alternatives that
>>>> lack that physics (i.e. that might ignore it or model it, replacing it with
>>>> the physics of the instantiation of the model, whatever that might be).*
>>>>
>>>> So it's rather simple. Both Dorian and I have identified candidate
>>>> 'low-hanging fruit' physics. There may be others. That physics may be the
>>>> crucial missing link that has dogged AGI for decades. If so, then all
>>>> activity that did not include that essential physics was actually destined
>>>> to underperform in mysterious ways that it is H-AGIs job to sort out. The
>>>> IGI, if it existed, would do that.
>>>>
>>>> Yes there are heaps of ethical issues with any AGI approach. The H-AGI
>>>> inorganic version will have one ethics/risk landscape, the H-AGI organic
>>>> version another. Both of these will contrast with the C-AGI risk landscape.
>>>> In what ways? I dunno! Let's find out!
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>> Colin Hales
>>>>
>>>>
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