Colin Hales wrote: > Hi AGI folk, > > Having returned to see what the personal AGI detritus looked like I > reviewed where I am and decided to act. Bottom line: I have turned the > garage into a robotics AGI lab from which this email is being written. > That took another huge effort.
I started a project similar 7 years ago, managed to save up ~$10k in yellow metal but have not had any money for anything at all for the past three years. I am currently trying to juggle a $90 water bill against my nutritional needs and putting gas in my car. Many good people are being raped by this economy. =( > I have written up the natural-AGI, analytic-AGI, synthetic-AGI 1950s > science cockup and am looking at publishing it. I expect to be > ignored. I am so over all the BS related to the science. Frankly the > journal system can shove it. Real science left the building long ago. > I don't need to publish to make the damned robots. I plan to get the > young involved and let them run with it. I seem to have reached the 60 > year-old curmudgeon stage and am not taking prisoners. Hear Hear! > I really appreciated all the enthusiasm over the IGI and am sorry but > I cannot play. The one thing it told me is that I think the > synthetic-AGI approach's time has come after 65 years in > hiatus. Life's too short to spend any more time on endless gabfests > and making clubhouses and their acolytry ... When I am done, if it > works, the robots will demonstrate themselves. If they don't well > screw it. I tried. =) -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- 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
