[ExI] Savants and user-interfaces [was Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

Vladimir Nesov robotact at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 04:42:17 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why binary?
>
> I once skimmed a biography of Ramanujan, he started
> multiplying numbers in his head as a pre-teen. I suspect
> it was grindingly boring, but given the surroundings, might
> have been the most fun thing he could think of.   If you're
> autistic, then focusing obsessively on some task might
> be a great way to pass the time, but if you're more or less
> normal, I doubt you'll get very far with obsessive-compulsive
> self-training -- and that's the problem, isn't it?
>

If the signals have properties of their own, I'm afraid they will
start interfering with each other, which won't allow the circuit to
execute in real time. Binary signals, on the other hand, can be
encoded by the activation of nodes of the circuit, active/inactive. If
you have an AND gate that leads from symbols S1 and S2 to S3, you
learn to remember S3 only when you see both S1 and S2 (probably you'll
still need complementary symbol to develop negative, so you'll also
need -S1, -S2 and -S3, so that -S3 is activated (recalled) when you
see S1 and -S2, whole table. You'll also need separate symbols for
each node in each gate. Probably randomly generated hieroglyph-like
symbols are a good way to create new categories in the mind for new
nodes in the circuit, and also to train yourself to recall the right
answers on the gates, by drawing them together.

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Vladimir Nesov
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