On Monday 23 April 2007 15:40, Lukasz Stafiniak wrote: > ... An AGI working with bigger numbers had better discovered binary > numbers. Could an AGI do it? Could it discover rational numbers? (It > would initially believe that irrational numbers do not exist, as early > Pythagoreans have believed.) After having discovered the basic > grounding, it could be taught the more advanced things.
How many people on this list have discovered anything as fundamental as binary numbers, I wonder? We take a lot of stuff for granted but we *learned* almost all of it, we didn't discover it. There's a lot of hubris in the notion that we, working from a technology base that can't build an AI with the common sense of a 5-year-old, will turn around and build a system that will duplicate 3000 years of the accumulated efforts of humanitiy's greatest geniuses in a year or two. Josh ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
