Vlad,
At this point, we ought to acknowledge that we just have different approaches.
You're trying to hit a very small target accurately and precisely. I'm not.
It's not important to me the precise details of how a self-organizing system
would actually self-organize, what form that would take or what goals would
emerge for that system beyond persistence/replication. We've already gone over
the Friendliness debate so I won't go any further with that here.
My approach is to try and recreate the processes that led to the emergence of
life, and of intelligence. I see life and intelligence as strongly
interrelated, yet I don't see either as dependent on our particular biological
substrate. Life I define as a self-organizing process that does work (expends
energy) to maintain its self-organization (which is to say it maintains a
boundary between itself and the environment, in which the entropy inside is
lower than the entropy outside). Life at the simplest possible level is
therefore a kind of hard-coded intelligence. My hunch is that anything
sufficiently advanced to be considered generally intelligent needs to be alive
in the above sense. But suffice it to say, pursuit of AGI is not in my short
term plans.
Just as an aside, because sometimes this feels combative, or overly defensive:
I have not come on to this list to try and persuade anyone to adopt my
approach, or to dissuade others from theirs. Rather, I came here to gather
feedback and criticism of my thoughts, to defend them when challenged, and to
change my mind when it seems like my current ideas are inadequate. And of
course, to provide the same kind of feedback for others when I have something
to contribute. In that spirit, I'm grateful for your feedback. I'm also very
curious to see the results of your approach, and those of others here... I may
be critical of what you're trying to do, but that doesn't mean I think you
shouldn't do it (in most cases anyway :-] ).
Terren
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