On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Matt Mahoney wrote: > I have asked this list as well as the singularity and SL4 lists > whether there are any non-evolutionary models (mathematical, > software, physical, or biological) for recursive self improvement > (RSI), i.e. where the parent and not the environment decides what the > goal is and measures progress toward it. But as far as I know, the > answer is no.
Have considered resource constraint situations where parents kill their young? The runt of the litter or, sometimes, others - like when a lion takes over a pride. Mostly in the non-human, non-Chinese portions of the animal kingdom. (I refer to current events re: China's population constraints on female offspring, of course.) Secondly, I'm still wondering about the representations of goals in the brain. So far, there has been no study showing the neurobiological basis of 'goal' in the human brain. As far as we know, it's folk psychology anyway, and it might not be 'true', since there's no hard physical evidence of the existence of goals. I'm talking about bottom-up existence, not top-down (top being "us", humans and our social contexts and such). Does RSI have to be measured with respect to goals? Can you prove to me that there exists no non-goal oriented improvement methodology? Keeping some possibilities open, as you can guess. I suspect that a non-goal oriented improvement function could fit into your thoughts in the same way that you might hope the goal variation of RSI would. - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ Engineers: http://heybryan.org/exp.html irc.freenode.net #hplusroadmap ------------------------------------------- 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=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
