[ExI] AI Motivation revisited

[john clark]

On Tue, 7/5/11, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
 "the process will never finish but for trivial problem sizes."
It irritates me when people say something like "never finish" when all they mean is it will take a long time. It also bothers me when the word "infinite" is used when what is meant is very very very large; the two things have quite different properties. 

 John K Clark  
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