On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps now that there are other physicists (besides myself) making these > claims,
You're a physicist? > He points out that Gu and colleagues derived their result by studying > an infinite system, rather than one of large but finite size, like most > natural systems. "So it's not entirely clear what their results mean for > actual finite systems," says Barrow. Ok, so this was a study of a fictional system that even in principle could not exist in the real universe, where all systems are finite. I'd be more interested if they proved their claim for a system that could actually exist. One can get all sorts of strange results with infinite systems. (When/if a proof is presented for a finite system, only then would I find it worthwhile to comment on the strange claim that these sorts of results would have major relevance for AGI development.) -- Aleksei Riikonen - http://www.iki.fi/aleksei ------------------------------------------- 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
