I'm also surprised there aren't more programmers or AGI enthusiasts who
aren't willing to work for beans to further this goal. We're just two
students in Arizona, but we'd both gladly give up our current lives to work
for 15-20G's a year and pull 80 hour weeks eating this stuff up. Having a
About de Garis... I feel the same as others on this listhave expressed...in that he is definitively loony.
I also have very strong doubts about Kurzweil's model of how the Singularity is going to unfold.
Here's what Eliezer had to say 4 years ago about Kurzweil... (I imagine this is
Bruce I tend to agree with all the things you say here and appreciate your insight, observations,and sentiment.
However, here is where you are horribly wrong:
In my mind, singularity is no different.I pesonally see it providing justanother tool in the hand of mankind, only one of greater power.
On 9/12/06, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While we are speculating on future technologies like AI and uploading leading to a Singularity, we should be aware that both of these are already happening.
The Internet already has the computational power and knowledge of several thousand human
