Nick, It's actually more like six thousand pages. However many pages thousands of rabbis can write in 600 years, more or less. Deborah found it and posted it on our refrigerator.
I understand you are recovering space. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Aug 8, 2017 3:24 PM, "Nick Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I LOVE this, Frank. How ever did you find it amongst the ten thousand > pages!!!!???? > > > > *Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. > Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the > work, but neither are you free to abandon it.* > > > > By the way. Now in my 80th year, I am officially against technology. I > was OK with everything up through the word processor. (I hated carbons.) > Everything after that, I could do without. > > > > Really! What has AI done for me lately? > > > > What was it Flaubert said about trains? Something like, they just made > it possible for people to run around faster and faster and be stupid in > more places. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Frank > Wimberly > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 08, 2017 1:56 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence > > > > Talmud: > > > > Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. > Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the > work, but neither are you free to abandon it. > > > > Plus 10,000 other pages. > > > > Frank Wimberly > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > > > On Aug 8, 2017 11:18 AM, "Pamela McCorduck" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Grant, does it really seem plausible to you that the thousands of crack > researchers at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Google, MIT, Cal Berkeley, and > other places have not seen this? And found remedies? > > > > Just for FRIAM’s information, John McCarthy used to call Asimov’s Three > Laws Talmudic. Sorry I don’t know enough about the Talmud to agree or > disagree. > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 8, 2017, at 1:42 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Grant writes: > > > > "Fortunately, the AI folks don't seem to see - yet - that they are > stumbling all over the missing piece: stochastic adaptation. You know, like > in evolution: chance mutations. AI is still down with a bad case of causal > determinism. But I expect they will fairly shortly get over that. Watch out. > " > > > > What is probability, physically? It could be an illusion and that there > is no such thing as an independent observer. Even if that is true, > sampling techniques are used in many machine learning algorithms -- it is > not a question of if they work, it is an academic question of why they work. > > > > Marcus > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Grant Holland < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, August 7, 2017 11:38:03 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Carl Tollander > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence > > > > That sounds right, Carl. Asimov's three "laws" of robotics are more like > Asimov's three "wishes" for robotics. AI entities are already no longer > servants. They have become machine learners. They have actually learned to > project conditional probability. The cat is out of the barn. Or is it that > the horse is out of the bag? > > Whatever. Fortunately, the AI folks don't seem to see - yet - that they > are stumbling all over the missing piece: stochastic adaptation. You know, > like in evolution: chance mutations. AI is still down with a bad case of > causal determinism. But I expect they will fairly shortly get over that. > Watch out. > > And we still must answer Stephen Hawking's burning question: Is > intelligence a survivable trait? > > > > On 8/7/17 9:54 PM, Carl Tollander wrote: > > It seems to me that there are many here in the US who are not entirely on > board with Asimov's First Law of Robotics, at least insofar as it may apply > to themselves, so I suspect notions of "reining it in" are probably not > going to fly. > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Future will be quite interesting. How will be the human being of the > future? For sure not a human being in the way we know. > > > > http://m.eltiempo.com/tecnosfera/novedades-tecnologia/peligros-y-avances- > de-la-inteligencia-artificial-para-los-humanos-117158 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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