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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Mark Seveland <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not a web developer as such.  But I can set up Wordpress and a forum
> if you like.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:06 PM, colin hales <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Excellent.. It'll do for now.. Am not a web dev guy. Plant a flag and let
>> it sit. Someone will have to own its development for a bit. While some
>> proposed content takes shape. It doesn't have to be pretty!
>>
>> Time zone issues here. Gotta go.
>>
>> Regards
>> Colin
>> ------------------------------
>> From: Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]>
>> Sent: ‎20/‎05/‎2015 11:47 AM
>> To: AGI <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [agi] Institute of General Intelligence (IGI)
>>
>> I registered a free domain name
>> INSTITUTEOFGENERALINTELLIGENCE.TK
>>
>> it is pointing to Mark's name servers.  Who wants to create a hello world
>> web page so we can test it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Colin Hales <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I put in a backorder and found out  igi.org t was gone afterwards. Doh.
>>> Does the predation have to start so soon? There's always a shark.
>>> OK. I'll ask. May take a while.
>>> Dorian... It's your name. Have you any alternatives if this shark turns
>>> out to be too hungry?
>>> Leave it there for the moment.a
>>> :-)
>>> colin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The domain name owner can be contacted at the e-mail address
>>>> [email protected].  Ask him how much he wants for the domain.
>>>>
>>>> We can always just grab a free domain name and change later once the
>>>> organization gets going.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Colin Hales <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I didn't buy igi.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The igi.org domain no longer seems to be offering its self for sale
>>>>>> when I visit it.  Did someone buy it already?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Colin Hales <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Logan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Logan Streondj <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 09:48:03AM +1000, colin hales wrote:
>>>>>>>> > Sorry about the previous empty. Phone issue. 10 thumbs.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > My particular flavour of the non-computer approach is irrelevant.
>>>>>>>> I am not pushing my own at all.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Robot $ and kind irrelevant. I have the math you speak of. Wrong
>>>>>>>> on both counts.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > I do not care what kind of NC-AGI arises. All I know is that
>>>>>>>> NC-AGI important, neglected and needs a champion.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> okay so obviously you are the champion.
>>>>>>>> Why is it important?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Because it's never been done.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> you guys have been talking about it for a week now,
>>>>>>>> and I still have no idea why you think it has value.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> like lets be honest here, anything that isn't a computer or
>>>>>>>> technology is biology.  so what you are really talking about
>>>>>>>> (seems to me) is biological-AGI, or connecting a vat of
>>>>>>>> brain-cells to a computer.
>>>>>>>> this has been done, and can play simple video games.
>>>>>>>> but so can deep neuronets on computers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No it is not necessarily biology. H-AGI can use biological material
>>>>>>> or make inorganic versions of the biological substrate. Mine is totally
>>>>>>> inorganic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And while hooking bio material to other hardware has been done, it
>>>>>>> has not been done by anyone headed in the direction of an AGI. Pure wet
>>>>>>> neuroscience? Yes. Machine learning? Yes. Robot control? Yes. This
>>>>>>> particular approach is not what I intend. Dorian may be more interested 
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> that. I don't want to stop anyone doing any of it just because it 
>>>>>>> clashes
>>>>>>> with my own vision of it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > So please set anything you think you know about me or my approach
>>>>>>>> aside. You actually know almost nothing and what little that is is
>>>>>>>> irrelevant to what is happening in this thread.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> okay so do you have some kind of proprietary secret approach?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was thinking you can Dorian can sign an NDA and then no one
>>>>>>>> will ever know about anything you guys do.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> personally I think that there are a lot of potential ethical
>>>>>>>> issues with using biological mediums for computation, also they
>>>>>>>> aren't particularly scalable or portable.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can see scalability. I can see portability. I can see
>>>>>>> generativity. It will be clunky at first like all new ideas. It has an
>>>>>>> organic and an inorganic aspect. All untried as H-AGI.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Both Dorian and I have written up and published everything that is
>>>>>>> needed to get your head round the fundamentals, which I know can be 
>>>>>>> hard to
>>>>>>> see for those without the biophysics. We have both argued for a long 
>>>>>>> time,
>>>>>>> one way or another, that the approach is novel. The one-liner 
>>>>>>> explanation:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *H-AGI is where the brain physics essential to an AGI is identified
>>>>>>> and included in an AGI substrate. This is achieved by actually
>>>>>>> replicating the physics (organic/inorganic, doesn't matter) and 
>>>>>>> including
>>>>>>> that physics on the substrate then and testing its performance against
>>>>>>> alternatives that lack that physics (i.e. that might ignore it or model 
>>>>>>> it,
>>>>>>> replacing it with the physics of the instantiation of the model, 
>>>>>>> whatever
>>>>>>> that might be).*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So it's rather simple. Both Dorian and I have identified candidate
>>>>>>> 'low-hanging fruit' physics. There may be others. That physics may be 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> crucial missing link that has dogged AGI for decades. If so, then all
>>>>>>> activity that did not include that essential physics was actually 
>>>>>>> destined
>>>>>>> to underperform in mysterious ways that it is H-AGIs job to sort out. 
>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>> IGI, if it existed, would do that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes there are heaps of ethical issues with any AGI approach. The
>>>>>>> H-AGI inorganic version will have one ethics/risk landscape, the H-AGI
>>>>>>> organic version another. Both of these will contrast with the C-AGI risk
>>>>>>> landscape. In what ways? I dunno! Let's find out!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Colin Hales
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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