Ben Goertzel wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PREMISES:
(1) AGI is one of the most complicated problem in the history of
science, and therefore requires substantial funding for it to happen.
Potentially, though, massively distributed, collaborative open-source
software development could render your first premise false ...
.... Though it is unlikely to do so, because collaborative open-source
projects are best suited to situations in which the fundamental ideas
behind the design has been solved.
Just having a large gang of programmers on an open-source project does
not address Pei's point about AGI being the "most complicated problem in
the history of science".
Pei: what I take you to be saying is that the research problem has an
unusually high initial overhead.
Richard Loosemore.
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