[ExI] AI Motivation revisited

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/7/5 john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>
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> On Tue, 7/5/11, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
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>  "the process will never finish but for trivial problem sizes."
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> It irritates me when people say something like "never finish" when all they mean is it will take a long time.

I suspect that Eugen's meaning is that things that are not going to
complete because people get bored (or the universe reach its thermic
death) before actually "never finish".

Personally, I think that such things belong to an altogether different
class than those who *cannot* finish, and do, or would, go on forever.
If anything because there is no point in considering whether and how
and how much the latter can be accelerated.

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Stefano Vaj