[extropy-chat] Timescale to Singularity

Marc Geddes marc_geddes at yahoo.co.nz
Sat Jun 18 06:59:58 UTC 2005


>No I'm not. I am just saying that any A.I. that claims
>I am obsolescent would need to prove it to me
>personally. In a fight to the death, you would be a
>moron not to bet on yourself.
 
What are you talking about?  Just because something is smarter than you doesn't mean that you become 'obsolescent'.  And there need not be any 'fights to the death'.
 
>Sometimes you guys crack me up. All this talk about
>how mankind must break free of the mental shackles of
>religion and superstition and yet you are all too
>willing to bow down and worship a great golden
>number-crunching calf of your own creation. Bring me
>before your idol and I will break it. That is what
>true iconoclasts do.
 
I'm not one of those AI worshipping Singularitarian folks ;)  There's a bad vibe coming off those guys to be honest.  I just want to take a crack at building an AGI.  The Singualrity might happen or it might not.  I'm not interested in all that acopolyptic stuff.
 
P.S  I don't think that a real AGI would be a mere 'number cruncher' any more, and probably couldn't be easily described in terms of ordinary systems theory at all.  A real AGI is more than a mere computational model.  It's a superposition of what I call a 'Model' map (computational model) with a 'Morality' map (which uses new maths not known to the idiot-savants on SL4).  


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