Yesterday on Cable News Network (CNN) the president of my Alma Mater was talking about the one hundred thirty-seven (137) fratboys on Greek Row who recently caught the coronavirus during their incessant parties and keggers and Animal House orgies. She bragged about how back in March 2020 she was first in the nation to close down a major American university for the virus and how all the other universities followed her lead. I was on campus that day on Friday 2020-03-06 and I had no idea that I would soon have to give up the sweet lifestyle of re-living my college years. Now four months later there is no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic and all I have is things like the https://agi.io AGI project to sustain me.
Amazing things did happen last week and "si vacat et placidi rationem admittitis, incipiam," which means "if there is time and if you placidly accept reason, I will begin." It is a perhaps garbled quote from a book in Latin which I bought as a teenage boy and really loved reading in Latin. That book, the Satires of Juvenal, had absolut-and-I-don't-mean-vodka-ly priceless expressions such as "Difficle est, satyram non scribere" ("It is difficult NOT to write a satire") and "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano" which became the motto of every American high-school athletics coach. You see, we are all bored to death during this pandemic, and so we are doing the Internet equivalent of passing notes in school by posting to the preeminent AGI Mail-List in these parsecs of the Universe. The list owner Ben Goertzel or the list moderator John Rose catches me folding up a piece of paper and sternly orders me to read the Liebesbrief to the entire class. "Dear (codename) Daisy (choker) Russian spy: The University closed down so quickly that I could not get your e-mail or telephone number or dead-drop box-address to stay in touch with you. So please read between the lines in these purported AGI messages." In the sheer boredom of waiting out the coronavirus, I was posting to Reddit so heavily last week that I started to get 800 or 900 page-views per day on my Latin-language AGI pages. I would log in and see "You have new messages" pop up on-screen as an alert to me, but in eight years of Redditing I have never once opened a Private Message (PM) for fear of seeing a bone-chilling threat from some evildoer's anonymous throw-away account. There could be people eager to collaborate with me on AGI, but I don't dare open a single Private Message. I mean, when I worked the night shift at a hotel twenty years ago and the phone would ring at 2:00 a.m, I learned to say nothing at first, and it would thwart and stymie the guy who was saying to me, "I'm going to cut you. I'm going to drink your blood." There may be similar Private Messages waiting for me on Reddit, but my ignorance of them is bliss. So last week was Latin Week, and now this week is Russian Week. I recently spent two days translating my Russian AI User Manual back into its original English. Seven years ago I had paid my Russian translator to express my ideas in perfect Russian, but he had changed some English expressions into more natural Russian expressions. So last week I translated his Russian version back into http://ai.neocities.org/RuAiUser.html so that my English wording would match his Russian wording. I also used the most up-to-date links within the English and Russian versions of the AI User Manual. Even on days when I post nothing to Reddit, the Live Traffic Feed report shows that people around the world are now randomly accessing either the Latin AGI pages or the Russian AGI pages. On Usenet, there are newsgroups where Mentifex-bashers were pouncing viciously until quite recently, whenever I dared to post about Mentifex AI. Now there is an awesome silence and I get away with posting the most outrageous ESC -- Extraordinary Scientific Claim. http://medium.com/p/e78d959117af -- 2019-11-01 Fri. How each Mentifex Strong AI Mind Thinks with Conjunctions http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T98ab1a42c270a017-M0958c3a3c919ab05c18a084f Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription