> When a proposed system design turns out to require fancy emergency > patches and somewhat arbitrary set points to achieve part of its > function, then perhaps that's a hint that it's time to widen-back and > re-evaluate the concept at a higher level. > > - Jef
I dunno, Jef ;-) ... The human brain seems to have a lot of emergency patches and arbitrary set points in it, and so does every *practical* AI design I've ever seen The problem may be that "safety" is not a simple concept... As Moshe pointed out, if one wants to trust to the power of elegant generalization, then one can simply trust to the rule I called R_2 in my second paper. This has no emergency patches and no arbitrary set points.. it's beautiful and pretty... Does this mean it's better than the patched up version? I'm not so sure. Elegance is a virtue, but not the only one... -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
