Hi, > Ben has been thinking about publishing his Novamente books, so he may be > more receptive to the idea of open-sourcing his AGI.
I have no near-term plans to open-source Novamente. I think that would be a bad idea for AGI safety reasons. I am worried that if we truly succeed in making a human-level intelligence, and opened up the code, some jerks might do really nasty things with it. Publishing the book is also a safety risk but less so because replicating the code from a fairly abstract book would be pretty hard. It's sorta like the difference between publishing a text on nuclear physics versus publishing the exact specifications for a nuclear bomb... -- Ben G ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
