On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So perhaps you could name some applications of AGI that don't fall into the > categories of (1) doing work or (2) augmenting your brain?
Perhaps you could list some uses of a computer that don't fall into the category of (1) computation (2) communication. Do you see how pointless reasoning at this level of abstraction is? In the few short decades we've had personal computers the wealth of different uses for *general* computation has been enchanting. Lumping them together and claiming you understand their effect on the world as a result is ridiculous. What commercial applications people will apply AGI to is just as hard to predict as what applications people would apply the personal computer to. My comment was meant to indicate that your hubris in assuming you have *any* idea what applications people will come up with for readily available AGI is about on par with predictions for the use of digital computers.. if not more so, as general intelligence is orders of magnitude more disruptive than general computation. And to get back to the original topic of conversation, putting restrictions on the use of supposedly open source code, the effects of those restrictions can no more be predicted than the potential applications of the technology. Which, I think, is a rational piler of the need for freedom.. you don't know better, so who are you to put these restrictions on others? Trent ------------------------------------------- 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
