[ExI] Computer power needed for AGI [WAS Re: Hard Takeoff-money]

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Thu Nov 18 06:06:26 UTC 2010


On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:05 PM, spike wrote:

> ...
>> 
>>> No name calling, no explicit insults, this is not ad hominem, not even 
>>> particularly sarcastic, but rather it's fair game.  She focused on the 
>>> ideas, not the man.  It's an example of how it should be done... Play
> ball!  {8-] spike
> 
>> Flatly disagree, Spike.
> 
>> She (sarcastically) asks when she can expect to get an alpha release of an
> AGI on her laptop, and then (patronizingly) tells me that if I have made a
> robust estimate then my fame is assured.
> 
>> Neither of those comments had anything to do with the topic:  they were
> designed to be rude.
> 
>> Richard Loosemore

I don't generally do sarcasm.  But you don't know that apparently.  What I know is that you are now acting like an ass and I have had quite enough of it.

- s




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