Kevin Peterson wrote: > This would be counter productive. Give a man a hammer, ..., give a man > Prolog, and everything is a problem in logic, give him Lisp and > everything is symbols, give him high order language structures to deal > with sets, groups, graphs, and everything will be expressed via those. > Force him to think about his data structures and representation, and > at least it will be clear that there are choices to be made, that > there should be
Give a man a programming language and everything is a problem with mathematics. Give a man a problem and he has a math problem. What is a problem? Just trying to say everything can be distilled down to math issues. Why not encapsulate and standardize the commonly used systems/structures so that wheels need not be reinvented while building the AGI and data structures and representation can be worked on with better tools, the tools of which would be prebuilt instruments to deal with non-simple data/code/math constructs. > But AGI is not going to be hacked together by some undergrad between WOW > sessions once he's given the "right" tools. I've been surprised by what has been "hacked" together with minimal "tools". Yes an AGI, the holy grail, cannot be just slapped together but maybe little proto AGI's that partially work and then crash and things are learned from that? > The portions of the first seed AGI that are written by humans will not > be written in a language designed for that project. Maybe. Probably not.... John ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
