AI goes back to syntactic models going back to the Indian linguist Panini (c. 350 B.C.)
On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 8:53:54 AM UTC, RP Singh wrote: > > If we put in more effort on research in the field of biology, psychology, > sociology and education, I am certain we will raise up a generation which > will be in control of their libidinal-violent nature, and make all > decisions with coolness of heart and mind resulting in logical endeavor. > Let machines remain a tool in our hands and not put forward as the driver > of our destinies, without a clear cut understanding of the human potential > we would not be able to design machines which being intelligent might still > be under our control. If we realize our potential and our nature we would > be better than intelligent machines, and if we take this step of giving > ourselves in the hands of machines with the little knowledge of our biology > and psychology that we have we would lose our battle for supremacy in the > world of tomorrow. So let our focus be on the development of science of > the human nature and potential. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:14 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Human leadership is corrupt. The history is clear. We form empires of >> violence. At the start of WW1, about 1911 with the Italian invasion of >> part of the declining Ottoman Empire, we had a population the planet could >> manage, new technologies that could have released us from work serfdom and >> the potential to grow green and surpass our libidinal-violent biology. >> Instead we went to war and have over-populated like a bacterial colony >> poisoning itself. This war to end all war led to another one, largely >> about exhausting the Wehrmacht on Soviet forces. I have no idea how these >> wars started, interesting given how much education I've had. The Americans >> won and everyone else lost, but Americans generally wanted no part of the >> stuff. Various fables on cause make no sense. Much can be said on this, >> yet we evade the fairly obvious reality that human society is generally >> dire. About 250,000 of the 400,000 inhabitants of the zenith of the >> Athenian democracy were slaves, and slaving was the major Black Sea >> industry from then until 1870. >> >> Machines could help us get over ourselves and establish a rational >> society. This would be a rebellion to remove the allocation class that >> owns nearly everything a monetary value can be put on. We would embody >> knowledge in the machines (we already do) and rely on their genuine >> rationality instead of our faux version, corrupted by our libidinal-violent >> biology. Most people are very scared of intelligent machines and rather >> like the idea humans are superior because we can remove their plugs. We >> worry they will destroy us in a world with 8,000 nuclear weapons in safe >> human hands that are not problematic. Genghis Khan killed about a third of >> his known world's population. >> >> Why do we hate machines so much? Do we fear their rationality shames >> us? We are all now chronically ignorant compared with extra-somatic >> databases. Maybe we fear control by machines operating in the interests of >> a small group or police state - yet this 'machine' is already in place as a >> socio-technical human endeavor as the allocation class in real power we >> can't vote out. We could change a lot if we weren't so naff about this. >> Anyone here even think about it? >> >> In terms of data, what we chatter about, changes as data if we are not >> actually interested in large-scale human change. >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
