Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Richfield
Travis, The AGI world seems to be cleanly divided into two groups: 1. People (like Ben) who feel as you do, and aren't at all interested or willing to look at the really serious lapses in logic that underlie this approach. Note that there is a similar belief in Buddhism, akin to the prisoners

Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Richfield
Fellow Cylons, I sure hope SOMEONE is assembling a list from these responses, because this is exactly the sort of stuff that I (or someone) would need to run a Reverse Turing Test (RTT) competition. Steve --- agi Archives:

Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-26 Thread Travis Lenting
Well, the existence of different contingencies is one reason I don't wont the first one modeled after a brain. I would like it to be a bit simpler in the sense that it only tries to answer questions from the most scientific perspective as possible. To me it seems like there isn't someone stable

RE: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-26 Thread John G. Rose
-Original Message- From: Ian Parker [mailto:ianpark...@gmail.com] How do you solve World Hunger? Does AGI have to. I think if it is truly G it has to. One way would be to find out what other people had written on the subject and analyse the feasibility of their solutions.

Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-26 Thread rob levy
why should AGIs give a damn about us? I like to think that they will give a damn because humans have a unique way of experiencing reality and there is no reason to not take advantage of that precious opportunity to create astonishment or bliss. If anything is important in the universe, its

Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-26 Thread Ian Parker
Actually if you are serious about solving a political or social question then what you really need is CRESS http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/web/home. The solution of World Hunger is BTW a political question not a technical one. Hunger is largely due to bad governance in the Third World. How do you

[agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-06-26 Thread David Jones
A method for comparing hypotheses in explanatory-based reasoning: * We prefer the hypothesis or explanation that ***expects* more observations. If both explanations expect the same observations, then the simpler of the two is preferred (because the unnecessary terms of the more complicated