[ExI] AI Motivation revisited

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:41:12AM -0700, john clark wrote:
> 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. 

If it takes longer than a decade it will never finish.
People's activities are quite ephemeral. Even this planet
has been around for only a few gigayears. Spacetime
might cease to exist in less than 100 gigayears. 

> 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. 

I didn't say ininite. I just said it won't finish.

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