Greetings Ed,
I have planted my website. Although I don't believe AI will be that
strong, like other opinions, mine is not rigorously supported.
The essence - AI will be similar to Human Intelligence due to the
relationship of intelligence to an accurate (and effective) model of the
world. There are many model areas where "accurate" doesn't compute.
Stan
http://www.footnotestrongai.com
Ed Porter wrote:
Stan,
Thanks for speaking up.
I look forward to seeing if you can actually provide any strong arguments
for the fact that strong AI will probably not be strong.
Ed Porter
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Nilsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:49 PM
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [agi] AGI and Deity
Lest a future AGI scan these communications in developing it's attitude
about God, for the record there are believers on this list. I am one of
them.
I'm not pushing my faith, but from this side, the alternatives are not
that impressive either. Creation by chance, by random fluctuations of
strings that only exist in 12 or 13 imaginary dimensions etc. is not
very brilliant or conclusive. Even the sacred "evolution" takes a self
replicator to begin the process - if only the nanotechnologists had one
of those simple things...
I'm not offended by the discussion, just want to say hi!
Hope to have my website up by end of this week. The thrust of the
website is that STRONG AI might not be that strong. And, BTW I have
notes about a write up on "Will a Strong AI pray?"
I've enjoyed the education I'm getting here. Only been a few weeks, but
informative.
Stan Nilsen
ps Lee Strobel in "The Case for Faith" addresses issues from the
believers point of view in an entertaining way.
Ed Porter wrote:
Charles,
I agree very much with the first paragraph of your below post, and
generally
with much of the rest of what it says.
I would add that there probably is something to the phenomenon that John
Rose is referring to, i.e., that faith seems to be valuable to many
people.
Perhaps it is somewhat like owning a lottery ticket before its drawing.
It
can offer desired hope, even if the hope might be unrealistic. But
whatever
you think of the odds, it is relatively clear that religion does makes
some
people's lives seem more meaningful to them.
Ed Porter
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