Why not instead of "simple English" versus "simple English and new language" the comparison was "more advanced English" versus "simple English and new language"? Why not spend the extra you show for Lojban and use more complicated English instead?
Getting the system to understand complex English is the GOAL Getting the system to understand Lojban is a potential means for accelerating the path to that goal...
> which should give it an advantage over a child in terms of more easily > building an understanding of what is being said to it. What about context, understanding? Do you agree or disagree with my point that they are the problem to be solved regardless of the language used?
Yes
I think you underestimate the problem of having to teach all AGI teachers a foreign, complicated language that they would use nowhere else.
It's a small problem compared to the problem of creating a human-level thinking machine ;-=) ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936