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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mark Seveland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Website: Live Forums now up.  Live Chat up and working.  Some site cleanup
> and configuration work done.   Please use and enjoy.
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Mark Seveland <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Live chat room at the IGI website.
>> http://instituteofgeneralintelligence.tk/chat/
>>
>> Its not pretty, but it works. (working on customization)
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Mark Seveland <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Its alive.....
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Mark Seveland <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +===================================+
>>>> | New Account Info                  |
>>>> +===================================+
>>>> | Domain: instituteofgeneralintelligence.tk
>>>> | Ip: 192.185.121.233 (n)
>>>> | HasCgi: y
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Mark Seveland <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not a web developer as such.  But I can set up Wordpress and a
>>>>> forum if you like.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:06 PM, colin hales <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Excellent.. It'll do for now.. Am not a web dev guy. Plant a flag and
>>>>>> let it sit. Someone will have to own its development for a bit. While 
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> proposed content takes shape. It doesn't have to be pretty!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Time zone issues here. Gotta go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>> From: Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Sent: ‎20/‎05/‎2015 11:47 AM
>>>>>> To: AGI <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [agi] Institute of General Intelligence (IGI)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I registered a free domain name
>>>>>> INSTITUTEOFGENERALINTELLIGENCE.TK
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it is pointing to Mark's name servers.  Who wants to create a hello
>>>>>> world web page so we can test it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Colin Hales <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Mark Seveland
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