Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-02 Thread Colin Hales
Hello again Jesse, I am going to assume that by trashing computationalism that Marc Geddes has enough ammo to vitiate Eleizer's various predilections so... to that end... Your various comments (see below) have a common thread of the form I see no reason why you can't ..X.. So let's focus

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-02 Thread Brent Meeker
Colin Hales wrote: Hello again Jesse, I am going to assume that by trashing computationalism that Marc Geddes has enough ammo to vitiate Eleizer's various predilections so... to that end... Your various comments (see below) have a common thread of the form I see no reason why you

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-02 Thread marc . geddes
On Sep 2, 6:27 pm, Colin Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again Jesse, I am going to assume that by trashing computationalism that Marc Geddes has enough ammo to vitiate Eleizer's various predilections so... to that end... To make it clear, I'm not trashing computaionalism. I

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Marc, */Eliezer/*'s hubris about a Bayesian approach to intelligence is nothing more than the usual 'metabelief' about a mathematics... or about computation... meant in the sense that cognition is computation, where computation is done BY the universe (with the material of the universe

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
Hi! Assumptions assumption assumptionstake a look: You said: Why would you say that? Computer simulations can certainly produce results you didn't already know about, just look at genetic algorithms. OK. here's the rub... /You didn't already know about.../. Just exactly 'who' (the 'you') is

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread marc . geddes
On Sep 2, 1:56 pm, Colin Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Marc, */Eliezer/*'s hubris about a Bayesian approach to intelligence is nothing more than the usual 'metabelief' about a mathematics... or about computation... meant in the sense that cognition is computation, where computation is