Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-26 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-25 Thread rooftop8000
--- Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-25 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
David Clark wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] As for all the other talk on this list, recently,

Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: Mark Waser wrote: IMO, creating an AGI isn't really a programming problem. The hard part is knowing exactly what to program. Which is why it turns into a programming problem . . . . I started out as a biochemist studying enzyme kinetics. The only reasonable way

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and why, the question of what language (or environment) they

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people If Novamente reaches human like,

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and why, the question

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard Loosemore wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
rooftop8000 wrote: one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people I'm not at all sure something like AGI is well-suited to