Myself, I think that the number of hours working alone might only need
to be a small number (3-4). But what I value most is hours
brainstorming with others who are of like mind and similar level of
knowledge. That is a gold-dust situation.
I have been watching From The Earth To The Moon recently. Oh to be part
of a 100,000-strong community working on one noble project!
Richard Loosemore.
Jean-Paul Van Belle wrote:
Interesting question you raise there, Matt (vs :) YKY
How many of us would be prepared to work FULL-TIME on AGI:
(0) If a department of defense/military organisation paid you develop a
secret AGI for national defense/intelligence purpose?
(1) If a Microsoft, Google, Sun or IBM came along and hired you
full-time to work on either
(1a) Open-Source; or
(1b) Proprietary AGI?
(2) A more 'friendly' research group came along (e.g. University,
government agency) to pay you fulltime
(2a) on *their* design/architecture or
(2b) on YOUR design but having to share your findings with the larger
community (shared credit)?
(3) If you had sufficient funds of your own?
Re (3) I have often wondered how much time one could really spend
continuously on working on AGI - refer to the Princeton Instititue of
Advanced Studies where established geniuses (such as Einstein) were/are
paid to devote fulltime efforts to thinking but actually not many
earthshaking ideas have come out of it. Don't we need a lot of 'time
wasted' on trivia such as a real job, leaking plumbing and family in
order to have these 1 or 2 hours of creative thinking/work each day?
Would it help to have consolidated 8 hour or longer blocks each day? Do
people like Ben, Leitz and Peter (Voss) really have so much time to
think creatively/design or is my suspicion right that a lot of their
(your :) time is spent on fundraising, PR, communication, management?
The grass always seems greener on the other side...
Jean-Paul
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