Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Vladimir, On 4/11/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence, simulational System Dynamics must be confined to systems whose operation can be observed or instrumented. Unfortunately, this lets out most of the REALLY important real-world problems, especially medicine, from

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 April 2008 03:17:21 pm, Steve Richfield wrote: Steve: If you're saying that your system builds a model of its world of discourse as a set of non-linear ODEs (which is what Systems Dynamics is bout) then I (and presumably Richard) are much more likely to be interested... No

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve:If you've got a messy real-world problem, you know little, if you have an algorithm giving the solution, you know all. This is the bit where, like most, you skip over the nature of AGI - messy real-world problems. What you're saying is: hey if you've got a messy problem, it's great, nay

Re: [agi] SAFAIRE project

2008-04-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
Jiri Jelinek wrote: Richard, Any public info about the user interface? No, this is the part that will become public last of all. Is it because the ideas keep evolving? Or would it just reveal too much about your unique ideas = possibly hurting your business if published in early stages of

Re: [agi] SAFAIRE project

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Waser
- Original Message - From: Stephen Reed Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:49 PM Subject: Re: [agi] SAFAIRE project Although not entirely applicable to every AGI project, here are my reasons for using the GPL. I am also strongly in favor of open access for AGI/AI academic

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Waser
So . . . . are you willing to immediately release your current Dr. Eliza code to Open Source and let us see it and help humanity together? - Original Message - From: Steve Richfield To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:53 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from

Re: [agi] Between logical semantics and linguistic semantics

2008-04-12 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Pei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lukasz, Thanks! To me, your logical semantics and linguistic semantics correspond to meaning of concepts and meaning of words, respectively, and the latter is a subset of the former, as far as an individual is

Re: [agi] SAFAIRE project

2008-04-12 Thread Stephen Reed
Mark wrote: I wonder if you could clarify why you insistupon GPL as opposed to a Berkeley-type or Apache-type license? I believevery strongly that both ends of the open source to commercial *spectrum*are entirely unreasonable and that there is a reasonable middle ground wherewe