Jiri, Give $1 for the research to who? Research team can easily eat millions $$$ without producing any useful results. If you just randomly pick researchers for investment, your chances to get any useful outcome from the project is close to zero.
The best investing practise is to invest only into such teams that produced working prototype already. Serious funding is usually helpful only to scale prototype up. (See how it worked out for Google, for example). So far there is no working prototype of AGI yet, therefore there is no point to invest. On the other hand some narrow AI teams already produced some useful results. Such teams deserve investments. When narrow AI field is mature enough -- making next step to AGI would be possible for self-funding AGI research team. Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 11:50:12 PM, you wrote: > I believe AGI does need promoting. And it's IMO similar with the > immortality research some of the Novamente folks are involved in. It's > just unbelievable how much money (and other resources) are being used > for all kinds of nonsense/insignificant projects worldwide. I wish > every American gave just $1 for AGI and $1 for immortality research. > Imagine what this money could for all of us (if used wisely). > Unfortunately, people will rather spend the money for their popcorn in > a cinema. > Godlike intelligence? :) Ok, here is how I see it: If we survive, I > believe we will eventually get plugged into some sort of pleasure > machine and we will not care about intelligence at all. Intelligence > is a useless tool when there are no problems and no goals to think > about. We don't really want any goals/problems in our minds. > Basically, the goal is to not have goal(s) and safely experience as > intense pleasure as the available design allows for as long as > possible. AGI could be eventually tasked to take care of all what that > takes + search for the system improvements and things that an altered > human mind could consider being even better than feelings as we know > them now. Many might think that they love someone so much that they > would not tell him/her "bye" and get plugged into a pleasure machine, > but I'm pretty sure they would change their mind after the first trial > of a well designed device of that kind. That's how I currently see the > best possible future. Some people, when talking about advanced aliens, > are asking "Where are they?".. Possibly, they are in such a pleasure > machine and don't really care about anything, feeling like true gods > in a world where concepts like intelligence are totally meaningless. ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=66235890-ee6bd5
