Alan, I took the time to try to read through some of your references to the work you're doing, not because I've got so much of it (time), but because I found some of your statements compelling enough to warrant further consideration.
Specifically, I looked over your document entitled "The Design and function of the Sphere Operatign System". I think you could be on to some very useful with your Sphere OS (although I'm not entirely clear on the implementation of the multi-tasking). And please don't take this the wrong way, but I did have a problem in reading your document. Although I'm probably the last person in the world qualified to judge the presentation worthiness of a work based on intended or unintended errors in spelling, grammar, and the like - posit my consistently comical use of Touring v. Turing, etc., I do believe that a reader like myself would have a much easier time with your document and the ideas therein if it weren't for the continual distractions of such errors. I'm certainly not saying your document needs to read perfectly per spelling, grammar, etc. - I'd side with Mark Twain in matters like these - however, I am saying that if it were presented with fewer such errors, you would probably find that you reach a wider, accepting audience - interested in your great ideas, myself included. You might liken your present document management to an operating system that was released with one to many bugs in it - still probably functional, but could use some cleanup - N'est-ce pas? Just my $0.02 worth. EGHeflin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Go and the translation problem. > Jonathan Standley wrote: > > it's the first link under the update notice at the top. It's a work in > > progress, more or less just showing some features of the model, and a > > proposed mechanism by which people form preferences (the bug chasing > > link on the extropians list got me thinking about fetishes...) > > I thought the same thing myself, I published those ideas to a number of > mailing lists including my own, > > groups.yahoo.com/group/thresearch/ > > (message number 72) > > If I say too much more the rabbi will take what I've written, implement > it himself, and screw up the universe with Yahweh 2.0. I don't want > that. > > Instead I will, here, present a slightly obfuscated version that, > hopefully, won't give him the Big Insight(tm) > > The weakness of your model (and the one in that message I referred to > above is that the linkages between ideas is static. It only works when > the stimulus exactly matches the learned impression on the sensory > organ. > > There needs to be a way to make the pattern independant of the sensor... > A first approximation of this is to make the input an abstract relation > matrix which the system scans for recognised patterns. > > This approach is also far too weak. For example, It would not be able to > figure out what this letter is: > > & $ > > # @ > > > > * K n > > % Q > > Which is, ofcourse, the letter G. > > What we need is a system which detects patterns which, when detected, > act as abstractions. > > We then turn to the cerebral cortex for a clue. We find that it is > organized as a celular automaton such that when a stimulus is presented, > it forms a pattern of activated cortical columns. This pattern then > propogates _AS A SIGNAL_ which may or may not trigger adjacent cortical > columns. If it activates a cortical column, a new signal is entered into > the matrix yielding a higher-level understanding. > > An artifact of this generality of cortical columns is the fact that, in > listening, helps to close your eyes. When you close your eyes, or shift > attention, your thalamus gates certain inputs to off which has the > effect of quieting a channel into your association areas. This has the > effect of reducing interferance and improving your ability to detect > signals (and derive abstractions from them). > > om > > Now the race is on between the rabbi and we the humanists to implement > this first. > > =((((((( > > -- > I WANT A DEC ALPHA!!! =) > 21364: THE UNDISPUTED GOD OF ALL CPUS. > http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ > [if rcn.com doesn't work, try erols.com ] > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
