<DIV>>No I'm not. I am just saying that any A.I. that claims<BR>>I am obsolescent would need to prove it to me<BR>>personally. In a fight to the death, you would be a<BR>>moron not to bet on yourself.</DIV>
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<DIV>What are you talking about? Just because something is smarter than you doesn't mean that you become 'obsolescent'. And there need not be any 'fights to the death'.</DIV>
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<DIV>>Sometimes you guys crack me up. All this talk about<BR>>how mankind must break free of the mental shackles of<BR>>religion and superstition and yet you are all too<BR>>willing to bow down and worship a great golden<BR>>number-crunching calf of your own creation. Bring me<BR>>before your idol and I will break it. That is what<BR>>true iconoclasts do.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm not one of those AI worshipping Singularitarian folks ;) There's a bad vibe coming off those guys to be honest. I just want to take a crack at building an AGI. The Singualrity might happen or it might not. I'm not interested in all that acopolyptic stuff.</DIV>
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<DIV>P.S I don't think that a real AGI would be a mere 'number cruncher' any more, and probably couldn't be easily described in terms of ordinary systems theory at all. A real AGI is more than a mere computational model. It's a superposition of what I call a 'Model' map (computational model) with a 'Morality' map (which uses new maths not known to the idiot-savants on SL4). </DIV><BR><BR>---<br><br>THE BRAIN is wider than the sky, <br> For, put them side by side, <br>The one the other will include <br> With ease, and you beside. <br><br>-Emily Dickinson<br><br>'The brain is wider than the sky'<br>http://www.bartleby.com/113/1126.html<br><br>---<br><br>Please visit my web-site:<br><br>Mathematics, Mind and Matter<br>http://www.riemannai.org/<br><br>---<p>Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com