WAY back in the 1960s, a friend of mine, Carl Nicolai, now only known as the inventor of non-deterministic crypto, was promoting the use of pseudo-random carrier waves for spread spectrum communication - to go MUCH farther with less power. As his ideas started to catch on, one UCSF EE professor even put up a web site to debunk such craziness!!!
Carl was SO disconnected from the mainstream that he couldn't get his articles published, and his patent promptly received a Secrecy Order. Of course, Carl's thoughts are now accepted as routine communications methods. Now, AGI seems to be caught in a similar sort of "trap" as RF communications once was, where present dogma and "leaders" are leading it to a dead end. Organizationally, AGI appears to be on a suicide mission, thinking it to be SO well targeted that it can enjoy the luxury of dismissing articles about radically different approaches as being "off topic" for conference presentations. Guys like Carl would NEVER have been acceptable to any conference. I think we have all hoped that guys like Jim and Tintner would see where the King has put his clothes. when we can all see quite clearly that the King is wearing them. This has led to an insane level of tolerance, because we all know that all it may take is one CAREFULLY calculated question to blow AGI wide open. Yet - apparently, the question remains unasked. For example, maybe we just haven't figured out yet where in an AGI to put the random number generator? We know that we NEED randomness in game theory and genetic algorithms, so I doubt that an AGI could be guilt without using a random number generator. OK, half a decade of discussions has failed to find the Holy Grail of AGI. Now, how about taking a step back and working on some good QUESTIONS? Any thoughts? Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
