On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Samantha Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. After the recent discussion it seems this list has turned into the > "philosophical musings related to AGI" list. Where is the AGI engineering > list? >
The problem isn't philosophy, but bad philosophy (the prevalent variety). Good philosophy is necessary for AI, and philosophy in some sense always focused on the questions of AI. Even if most of the existing philosophy is bunk, we need to build our own philosophy. Frankly, I don't remember any engineering discussions on this list that didn't fall on deaf ears of most of the people not believing that the direction is worthwhile, and for good reasons (barring occasional discussions of this or that logic, which might be interesting, but again). We need to work more on the foundations, to understand whether we are going in the right direction on at least good enough level to persuade other people (which is NOT good enough in itself, but barring that, who are we kidding). -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- 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=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
