[ExI] Computer power needed for AGI [WAS Re: Hard Takeoff-money]
Samantha Atkins
sjatkins at mac.com
Thu Nov 18 06:06:26 UTC 2010
On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:05 PM, spike wrote:
> ...
>>
>>> 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-] spike
>
>> 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.
>
>> Richard Loosemore
I don't generally do sarcasm. But you don't know that apparently. What I know is that you are now acting like an ass and I have had quite enough of it.
- s
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