[ExI] Computer power needed for AGI [WAS Re: Hard Takeoff-money]

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Thu Nov 18 06:03:38 UTC 2010


On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote:

> spike wrote:
>> ... On Behalf Of Richard Loosemore
>> ...
>>>> Great.  When can I get an early alpha to fire up on my laptop?
>>>> This is a pretty extravagant claim you are making so it requires some evidence to be taken too seriously.  But if you do have that where your estimates are reasonably robust then your fame is assured...
>> Samantha
>>> This is the kind of childish, ad hominem sarcasm used by people who prefer
>> personal abuse to debating the ideas.
>>> A tactic that you resort to at the beginning, middle and end of every
>> discussion you have with me, I have noticed.
>>> Richard Loosemore
>> No name calling, no explicit insults, this is not ad hominem, not even
>> particularly sarcastic, but rather it's fair game.  She focused on the
>> ideas, not the man.  It's an example of how it should be done.
>> Play ball!  {8-]
> 
> Flatly disagree, Spike.
> 
> She (sarcastically) asks when she can expect to get an alpha release of an AGI on her laptop, and then (patronizingly) tells me that if I have made a robust estimate then my fame is assured.
> 
> Neither of those comments had anything to do with the topic:  they were designed to be rude.
> 
> 

Not in the least.  I am beginning to expect part of the reason you got booted from SL4 is because you can be a defensive jerk. 

> 
> Richard Loosemore
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