Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
That was a personal insult. You should be ashamed of yourself, if you cannot discuss the issues without filling your comments with ad hominem abuse. I did think about replying to the specific insults you set out above, but in the end I have decided that it is not worth the effort to deal with people who stoop to that level. If you look back on everything I have written, you will notice that I NEVER resort to personal attacks in order to win an argument. I have defended myself against personal attacks from others, and I have sometimes become angry at those attacks, but that is all. Richard Loosemore ---- If you attack the work of a person or his opinion again and again then this is informally a personal attack. And often the issue of such discussion moves away from a certain subject to the pure question who is right. AGI is a very complex subject. And we should always remember that we have a common goal: The creation of human level intelligence or even super human intelligence. This goal is perhaps the most difficult goal I know. We may have different opinions how far we are and how things are to be evaluated that we already have. But we should better talk about how we can move a little bit nearer towards our common goal. My approach would be, that we make thought experiments like my example of the robot in the garden who is asked how many apples are in the tree. We should outline the processes which could happen in the robot's brain. First, the necessary processes should be named without presenting detailed algorithms. Then we should ask which processes seem to be easy and which are hard. The hard tasks need of course most attention. We must first ask why they are hard. What constitutes the real problem. Probably we will reach points where we see, that the set of processes we initially assumed, must be changed. Incrementally, we will derive a more and more detailed plan how everything could work. ------------------------------------------- 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=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
