On 6/3/08, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> One thing I don't get, YKY, is why you think you are going to take
> textbook methods that have already been shown to fail, and somehow
> make them work.  Can't you see that many others have tried to use
> FOL and ILP already, and they've run into intractable combinatorial
> explosion problems?

Calm down =)

I'll use domain-specific heuristics just as you do.  There's nothing
wrong with "textbooks".

> Some may argue that my approach isn't radical **enough** (and in spite
> of my innate inclination toward radicalism, I'm trying hard in my AGI work
> to be no more radical than is really needed, out of a desire to save time/
> effort by reusing others' insights wherever  possible) ... but at least I'm
> introducing a host of clearly novel technical ideas.

Yes, I acknowledge that you have novel ideas.  But do you really think
I'm so dumb that I ONLY use "textbook" ideas?  I try to integrate
existing methods.  My style of innovation is kind of subtle.

You have done something new, but not so new as to be in a totally
different dimension.

YKY


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