Take a look

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Benjamin Kapp <[email protected]> wrote:

> just start up a word press page for now?
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:14 PM, colin hales <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Brilliant! L place to begin.
>> All this attention is appreciated.
>>
>> Real world calls.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Colin
>> ------------------------------
>> From: Mark Seveland <[email protected]>
>> Sent: ‎20/‎05/‎2015 12:34 PM
>>
>> To: AGI <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [agi] Institute of General Intelligence (IGI)
>>
>> +===================================+
>> | New Account Info                  |
>> +===================================+
>> | Domain: instituteofgeneralintelligence.tk
>> | Ip: 192.185.121.233 (n)
>> | HasCgi: y
>>
>> 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    *AGI* | Archives
>>>>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
>>>>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee>
>>>>>>>>> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription
>>>>>>>>> <http://www.listbox.com>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    *AGI* | Archives
>>>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
>>>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11721311-20a65d4a>
>>>>>>>> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription
>>>>>>>> <http://www.listbox.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    *AGI* | Archives
>>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
>>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee>
>>>>>>> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription
>>>>>>> <http://www.listbox.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
>>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11721311-20a65d4a> |
>>>>>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription
>>>>>> <http://www.listbox.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
>>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee> |
>>>>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription
>>>>> <http://www.listbox.com>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> [The entire original message is not included.]
>>   *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee> |
>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription
>> <http://www.listbox.com>
>>
>
>    *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now>
> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/27079473-66e47b26> |
> Modify
> <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>
> Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com>
>



-- 
Regards,
Mark Seveland



-------------------------------------------
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

Reply via email to