Re: [agi] Honestly?

2018-09-24 Thread Robert Levy via AGI
I just recently wrote some thoughts on twitter about this. My thoughts there are a rough sketch at bridging the gap of doubt between personal experience on one hand and the compelling case for cybernetic totalism on the other. I'm thinking of expanding this is into a full article to better make

[agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Levy via AGI
I don't think I've seen a discussion on this mailing list yet about Pearl's hypothesis that causal inference is the key to AGI. His breakthroughs on causation have been in use for almost 2 decades. The new Book of Why, other than being the most accessible presentation of these ideas to a broader

Re: [agi] Human Singularity

2018-07-10 Thread Robert Levy via AGI
I thought MP stood for Mentifex Proxy. ;) I kid, i kid! On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:45 PM MP via AGI wrote: > I’d be very interested in such a philosophy. I’ve always had in mind that > true AGI would, in time anyway, become a "deity" in a very logical sense of > the word. I do revere the idea

Re: [agi] Human Singularity

2018-07-09 Thread Robert Levy via AGI
Another boring cult, got it. More relevant to this list would be human cultural experiments based on social intelligence augmentation tools. The social intelligence augmentation singularity will bloom up many weird cults I suspect. It's also far more risky, but that's a feature, not a bug. On