[agi] Re: If aliens are monitoring us, our development of AGI might concern them
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my own rather skeptical mind, if I were to make a wild guess I would currently put the probability of this at roughly at least one in ten, a large enough possibility that it should, at least, be considered in discussions of the future of AGI and the singularity. In case there are some on this list that would like a high-quality starting point for getting to know the ufo scene, the following seems like a good fit: http://www.ufoskeptic.org/ An information site on the UFO phenomenon by and for professional scientists. Personally, I don't know much about this topic, but that is the highest quality site on it that I've come across, and I recommend it to people who have more motivation than me to learn about UFOs. (Do not infer from the name of the site that it would be dismissing all UFO reports out of hand.) -- Aleksei Riikonen - http://www.iki.fi/aleksei --- 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=8660244id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
[agi] Re: Why nature can't be reduced to mathematical laws
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps now that there are other physicists (besides myself) making these claims, You're a physicist? He points out that Gu and colleagues derived their result by studying an infinite system, rather than one of large but finite size, like most natural systems. So it's not entirely clear what their results mean for actual finite systems, says Barrow. Ok, so this was a study of a fictional system that even in principle could not exist in the real universe, where all systems are finite. I'd be more interested if they proved their claim for a system that could actually exist. One can get all sorts of strange results with infinite systems. (When/if a proof is presented for a finite system, only then would I find it worthwhile to comment on the strange claim that these sorts of results would have major relevance for AGI development.) -- Aleksei Riikonen - http://www.iki.fi/aleksei --- 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=8660244id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
