Fwd: Dan Dennett on AI

2019-02-20 Thread Brent Meeker
Why we shouldn't develop machines with general AI. Brent Forwarded Message A contribution to a discussion we were having a couple of weeks ago: https://www.wired.com/story/will-ai-achieve-consciousness-wrong-question/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/20/2019 1:23 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:16:31 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: On 2/20/2019 8:42 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:09:10 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: >/Newton "explained"

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:16:31 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/20/2019 8:42 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:09:10 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: >> >> >> >* Newton "explained" * >> >> >> Why did you put explained in quotation marks? If

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/20/2019 8:42 AM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:09:10 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: >/Newton "explained" / Why did you put explained in quotation marks? If you can predict what something is going to do then you've explained it, the

Re: Recommend this article, Even just for the Wheeler quote near the end

2019-02-20 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 9:14:35 AM UTC-6, PGC wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 11:39:21 PM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 15 Feb 2019, at 20:43, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, February 15, 2019 at 12:01:26 PM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/19/2019 11:06 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 8:16:51 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: On 2/19/2019 5:10 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: *What you wrote makes no sense. It fails to explain why motion occurs in the absence of force. AG * So

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:42 AM wrote: > *> QM better illustrates the justification for quotes. Many interpretations > that make the same predictions. AG * > Yes, many interpretations of Quantum Mechanics make the same predictions, so at least for now which interpretation (explanation) you use

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:09:10 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > > >* Newton "explained" * > > > Why did you put explained in quotation marks? If you can predict what > something is going to do then you've explained it, the better the > prediction the better the explanation. I don't

Re: Recommend this article, Even just for the Wheeler quote near the end

2019-02-20 Thread PGC
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 11:39:21 PM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 15 Feb 2019, at 20:43, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Friday, February 15, 2019 at 12:01:26 PM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 15 Feb 2019, at 16:12, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday,

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread John Clark
> >* Newton "explained" * Why did you put explained in quotation marks? If you can predict what something is going to do then you've explained it, the better the prediction the better the explanation. I don't know what else the word could possibly mean. And in science no explanation is perfect,

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-02-20 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:30:01 AM UTC-7, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 1:06:25 AM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 8:16:51 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/19/2019 5:10 PM,