There is a long and free book on AI here - http://repo.hackerzvoice.net/depot_madchat/coding/ai/Artificial%20Intelligence%20-%20A%20Modern%20Approach.pdf On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 1:58:30 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > 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. >>> >> >>
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