<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:04 AM, John K Clark wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">John Grigg in response to giovanni santost wrote:<br><br>> You are badly anthropomorphizing the AGI.<br><br>For God's sake, we're back with that crap! Prove to me why<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>anthropomorphizing is always a bad thing. Come on, I dare</font></font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">you to try, come on, mess with me!</font></font></strong></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Who would want to mess with an evolved monkey already literally slinging crap and no doubt getting ready to verbally beat his chest? :-) Seriously, it doesn't sound like good entertainment value.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4"><br><br>> It will most likely not have the same biological<br>> drives/wiring that you and I have.<br><br>If true then the AGI, that is to say, the American Geological</font></font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">Institute<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></strong><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">(or perhaps you mean Artificial Intelligence) will</font></font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">be even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></strong><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">more unpredictable than I thought it was; and that</font></font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">was pretty<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></strong><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">God Damn unpredictable. The logic is irrefutable,</font></font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">the friendly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></strong><strong><font size="2"><font size="4">AI idea is brain dead dumb.<br></font></font></strong></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Thanks for you highly priced and doubtless extremely insightful opinion. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>- samantha</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>