Well when you had the Manhattan project that started, the real Manhattan project, there was one thing that made it all happen that if it did not exist we'd still be pre-nuclear. That is.... the chain reaction. The chain reaction, something that is taken for granted and assumed, was critical for any sort of motivation behind the mass gathering of people power.
If you look at the state of internet based intelligence now, all the data and its structure, the potential for chain reaction or a sort of structural vacuum exists and it is accumulating a potential at an increasing rate. IMO... John > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:34 AM > To: singularity@v2.listbox.com > Subject: Re: [singularity] Vista/AGI > > This is part of the idea underlying OpenCog (opencog.org), though it's > being done > in a nonprofit vein rather than commercially... > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:55 AM, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Just a thought, maybe there are some commonalities across AGI designs > where > > components could be built at a lower cost. An investor invests in the > > company that builds component x that is used by multiple AGI > projects. Then > > you have your little AGI ecosystem of companies all competing yet > > cooperating. After all, we need to get the Singularity going ASAP so > that we > > can upload before inevitable biologic death? I prefer not to become > > nano-dust I'd rather keep this show a rockin' capiche? > > > > So it's like this - need standards. Somebody go bust out an RFC. Or > is there > > work done on this already like is there a CogML? I don't know if the > > Semantic Web is going to cut the mustard... and the name "Semantic > Web" just > > doesn't have that ring to it. Kinda reminds me of the MBone - names > really > > do matter. Then who's the numnutz that came up with "Web 3 dot oh" > geezss! > > > > John > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 7:07 PM > > > To: singularity@v2.listbox.com > > > > > > > Subject: Re: [singularity] Vista/AGI > > > > > > Perhaps the difficulty in finding investors in AGI is that among > people > > > most > > > familiar with the technology (the people on this list and the AGI > list), > > > everyone has a different idea on how to solve the problem. "Why > would I > > > invest in someone else's idea when clearly my idea is better?" > > > > > > > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > singularity > > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now > > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ > > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC > Director of Research, SIAI > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they > will surely become worms." > -- Henry Miller > > ------------------------------------------- > singularity > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ > Modify Your Subscription: > http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > bbf9c1 > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=98631122-712fa4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
