Re: [agi] Half a Wish...

2015-03-29 Thread Matt Mahoney
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Steve Richfield wrote: > > Neil deGrasse Tyson the astronomer believes that bacteria DID discover space > travel, by way of being catapulted into space via meteor impacts to later > fall to earth. In short, his theory is that life did NOT begin here on earth, >

RE: [agi] 1%

2015-03-29 Thread John Rose
It depends, a minimal implementation as a single cell AGI or a single cell with a trillion duplicates AGI. I was hinting towards the latter. But here is something else to think of – Suppose the way we see things is not really how it is. And that happens often throughout history. Suppose tha

RE: [agi] Mounting Evidence, Massive Multi-Agent Intelligence

2015-03-29 Thread John Rose
> -Original Message- > From: Anastasios Tsiolakidis [mailto:sokratis...@gmail.com] > > No! Shouldn't you guys be doing something slightly more productive than > debating bacterial intelligence anyway? As we are nowhere near solving the > issue of human intelligence metrics we'd better leav

RE: [agi] Mounting Evidence, Massive Multi-Agent Intelligence

2015-03-29 Thread John Rose
Yes, it makes sense and it’s another way to study and work with bacteria. For example there are bacteria that exclusively eat electrons, breathe them, excrete them. And clump together to form circuits. What kind of intelligent things could we genetically engineer with those bacteria? John

Re: [agi] Mounting Evidence, Massive Multi-Agent Intelligence

2015-03-29 Thread Jim Bromer
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:14 AM, John Rose wrote: >> -Original Message- > > I'm not well-versed in this area either but I do see advances in studying > this. Why would microbes evolutionarily not utilize or at least mimic related > quantum optimizations if they are in fact physically ut

RE: [agi] Mounting Evidence, Massive Multi-Agent Intelligence

2015-03-29 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
A new perspective, from our earth night sky. > Subject: Re: [agi] Mounting Evidence, Massive Multi-Agent Intelligence > From: sokratis...@gmail.com > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 20:37:14 +0100 > To: a...@listbox.com > > > > > On 28.03.2015, at 18:18, Benjamin Kapp wrote: > > > > Does this make s