Re: [agi] Re: HOW ADAPTIVE ARE YOU [NOVAMENTE] BEN? P.S.

2007-04-29 Thread Bob Mottram
There are numerous ways in which a goal could be achieved, and in the human case this is usually just by traditional thinking, i.e. observing other people completing the task, then trying to copy the way they did it. The relative social status of the demonstrator to the observer dictates how prob

[agi] Re: HOW ADAPTIVE ARE YOU [NOVAMENTE] BEN? P.S.

2007-04-29 Thread Mike Tintner
Ah.. I didn't get the test quite right. It isn't simply "how many alternative ways can you find of achievng any goal?" You might have pre-specified a vast number of ways of moving from A to B for the system. The test is: " how many NEW (non-specified) alternative ways can you find of achieving