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 ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
