--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Matt Mahoney
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Lets distinguish between the two major goals of AGI.
> The first is to automate the economy. The second is to
> become immortal through uploading.
> 
> Umm, who's goals are these?  Who said they are
> "the [..] goals of
> AGI"?  I'm pretty sure that what I want AGI for is
> going to be
> different to what you want AGI for as to what anyone else
> wants AGI
> for.. and any similarities are just superficial.

So, I guess I should say, "the two commercial applications of AGI". I realize 
people are working on AGI today as pure research, to better understand the 
brain, to better understand how to solve hard problems, and so on. I think 
eventually this knowledge will be applied for profit. Perhaps there are some 
applications I haven't thought of?

-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]




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