> Ben Goertzel wrote: > >> Since I'm too busy studying neuroscience, I simply don't have any > >> time for learning operating systems. I will therefore either use the > >> systems I know or the systems that require the least ammount of effort > >> to learn regardless of their features. > > > Alan, that sounds like a remarkably good recipe for failure ;-) > > So I hope you're kidding! > > Oh? > Are you then volunteering to be my sysadmin and general answer-slave > with regards to operating systems?
Alan, I like you too much to offer to be your sysadmin ;-> I am a pretty poor sys-admin! > Please don't fault me for trying to apply my precious few neurons to > what I think is their best use... My point is, if you want to build an AGI, there is SO MUCH difficult technical work involved, that the work involved in learning every major available OS thoroughly and comparing their merits for AGI, is trivial by comparison. I say this as someone who just burned half a week setting up a Linux network in his study. Yeah, that stuff is a pain. But compared to designing, programming and testing a thinking machine, it's cake, obviously.... The cost incurred by developing one's AGI on a suboptimal system, over the long term is going to be WAY greater than the cost of learning and evoluating different OS's.... -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
