If we engage a class of problems on which we can't reason, and throw tech at that, we'll catch the occasional fish, but we won't really know how or why. Some marine life is poisonous however, which might not be obvious in the catch.
I prefer "keep it simple approaches to novelty": >From G. Kreisel's "Obituary of K. Gödel": *Without losing sight of the permanent interest of his work, Gödel repeatedly stressed... how little novel mathematics was needed; only attention to some quite commonplace distinctions; in the case of his most famous work: between arithmetical truth on the one hand and derivability by formal rules on the other. Far from being uncomfortable about so to speak getting something from nothing, he saw his early successes as special cases of a fruitful general, but neglected scheme:* *By attention or, equivalently, analysis of suitable traditional notions and issues, adding possibly a touch of precision, one arrives painlessly at appropriate concepts, correct conjectures, and generally easy proofs- * Kreisel, 1980. On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:37 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > "I'll be back!" > > > On 26 August 2014 07:20, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> a super-intelligent machine devoted to the killing of "enemy" human >> beings (+ opposing drones I suppose as well) >> This does not bode well for a benign super-intelligence outcome does it? >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
