<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Monday, September 29, 2014 10:02 AM, Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></span><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is similarity between the Wright Brothers and AI.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They knew that heavier than air objects could fly because<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">they could observe birds, bats and insects.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Likewise, AI people observe what we call intelligence in </span></font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">humans and to some extent in animals.</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If we can duplicate human brain circuits, there is no </span></font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">reason not to expect intelligence to emerge.</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That may not be the best way, just as flapping wings was<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">not the best way for humans to achieve flight.</span></font></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>It's a good analogy as far as it goes. The anti-AI crowd can, of course, offer that intelligence is nothing like flight in terms of how it's achieved in a living thing. I'm not saying I buy that attack on the analogy, but it might show why the analogy is not as persuasive across the board. After all, analogies succeed based on whether people agree the things compared being similar enough. <br><br>By the way, huge discussion of the topic on LeftLibertarian 2 for those interested. The group's archives are at:<br><br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeftLibertarian2/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeftLibertarian2/</a><br><br>Regards, <br><br>Dan <br> My latest Kindle book, "Born With Teeth," can be previewed at: <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N72FBA2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N72FBA2</a></span><br></div></body></html>