Programming definitely feels like an art to me - I get the same feelings as when I am painting. I always wondered why.
On the phylosophical side in general technology is the ability of humans to adapt the environment to themselves instead of the opposite - adapting to the environment. The environment acts on us and we act on it - we absorb information from it and we change it while it changes us. When we want to step further and create an AGI I think we want to externalize the very ability to create technology - we want the environment to start adapting to us by itself, spontaneously by gaining our goals. Vale On 9/4/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will:You can't create a program out of thin air. So you have to have some > sort of program to start with > > Not out of thin air.Out of a general instruction and desire[s]/emotion[s]. > "Write me a program that will contradict every statement made to it." "Write > me a single program that will allow me to write video/multimedia > articles/journalism fast and simply." That's what you actually DO. You start > with v. general briefs rather than any detailed list of instructions, and > fill them in as you go along, in an ad hoc, improvisational way - > manifestly *creating* rather than *following* organized structures of > behaviour in an initially disorganized way. > > Do you honestly think that you write programs in a programmed way? That > it's not an *art* pace Matt, full of hesitation, halts, meandering, twists > and turns, dead ends, detours etc? If "you have to have some sort of > program to start with", how come there is no sign of that being true, in > the creative process of programmers actually writing programs? > > Do you think that there's a program for improvising on a piano [or other > form of keyboard]? That's what AGI's are supposed to do - improvise. So > create one that can. Like you. And every other living creature. > > > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
