Steve:If you've got a messy real-world problem, you know little, if you have an algorithm giving the solution, you know all.
This is the bit where, like most, you skip over the nature of AGI - messy real-world problems. What you're saying is: "hey if you've got a messy problem, it's great, nay perfect if you have a neat solution." Contradiction in terms and reality. If it's messy, there isn't a neat solution. Take most cancers. If you have one, what do you do? Well, there are a lot of people out there offering you a lot of v. conflicting treatments and proposals, and there is no neat, definitive answer to your problem. That's the kind of problem a human general intelligence has to deal with, and was designed to deal with. Not the neat ones. (And how do I communicate that to you - get you & other AGI-ers to focus on that? Because what you'll do is say: "Oh sure it's messy, but there's gotta be a neat solution." You won't be able to stay with the messiness. It's too uncomfortable. My "communication problem" is in itself a messy one - like most problems of communicating to other people, e.g. how do you sell your AGI system or get funding?) ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
