>> Just a gentle suggestion:  If you're planning to unveil a major AGI 
>> initiative next month, focus on that at the moment.

I think that morality (aka Friendliness) is directly on-topic for *any* AGI 
initiative; however, it's actually even more apropos for the approach that I'm 
taking.

>> As I have begun to re-attach myself to the issues of "AGI" I have become 
>> suspicious of the ability or wisdom of attaching important semantics to 
>> atomic tokens (as I suspect you are going to attempt to do, along with most 
>> approaches), but I'd dearly like to contribute to something I thought had a 
>> chance.

Atomic tokens are quick and easy labels for what can be very convoluted and 
difficult concepts which normally end up varying in their details from person 
to person.  We cannot communicate efficiently and effectively without such 
labels but unless all parties have the exact same concept (to the smallest 
details) attached to the same label, we are miscommunicating to the exact 
degree that our concepts in all their glory aren't congruent.  A very important 
part of what I'm proposing is attempting to deal with the fact that no two 
humans agree *exactly* on the meaning of any but the simplest labels.  Does 
that allay your fears somewhat?

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