p.s. I'm surprised no one pointed out this aberration in the paper to me before, but, I guess that's an indication of how few people have read that paper in the months since i posted it ;-)
ben g > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Listbox. Com > Subject: Odd error in "Mindplex" paper > > > > Hi all, > > Someone just pointed out to me, offlist, an embarrassing > "typographical" oddity in my online paper on Mindplexes. > > > I'm generally a silent observer of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I > > wanted to point out an apparent typographical oversight or potentially > > distasteful 'hack' in your paper. > > > > Please make note under "2.3 The Singularity" the reference to Eliezer > > Yudkowsky aka "Yudkowsky [fuckwad1] has put particular effort into > > understanding the AI aspects of the singularity, discoursing > > extensively on > > the notion of Friendly AI [19] - the creation of AI systems > that, as they > > rewrite their own source code, achieving progressively greater > and greater > > intelligence, leave invariant the portion of their code requiring > > them to be > > friendly to human beings." > > Oh goodness! That little notation "[fuckwad1]" had nothing to do > with Eliezer or my opinion of him (which is reasonably > positive)... but was a remnant of a joke a friend played on me in > 2001, where he reset my username in Word to "fuckwad".... > > Apparently, all Comments (created using the Word "Comment" > feature) in my MS-Word file were automatically appended with my > username... and this carried over into the HTML version! > > Arrrgh. I'll edit that out of the Mindplex paper tonight. > > Stranger things have been seen on God's green Earth ;-) > > ben g > > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
