Every thing is a constraint

"Everything" is not much of a constraint

;-)

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Lukasz Stafiniak <lukst...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Talking on a very abstract level, MOSES could be ultimately developed
> so that it explores what you could call "constraint relaxation
> strategies"; combo trees are built such that they meet the constraints
> "optimally" with more-or-less random exploration of different
> trade-offs. Pure MOSES (current) starts with no knowledge and learns
> along the way, you could also call the knowledge learned
> "constraints", especially once it would be expressed in
> "transfer-friendly" declarative way.
>
> "Everything is a constraint."
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ed Porter <ewpor...@msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > My point was the parallel constraint relaxation would appear able to be
> used
> > much like a genetic algorithm, except that in a Novamente system it would
> > have the ability to take advantage of much of the relevant world
> knowledge,
> > and knowledge about how to best reason from world knowledge, that was
> > contained in hypergraph, when proposing solutions.
> >
> >
> >
> > Your acknowledgement that in WebMind the hypergraph was used without
> MOSES,
> > implies you agreement that the hypergraph could be used for exploring a
> > possible solution space to various problems, and doing creative thinking.
> >
> >
> >
> > My REAL main point, was that from my reading about Combo and MOSES in
> your
> > 2007 Novamente book, and from reading one of Moshe's long papers about
> it,
> > MOSES seem to take to little advantage of all the rich, complex
> hierarchical
> > and generalization knowledge contained in the hypergraph --- although it
> was
> > clear to me that their would be ways in which it could be modified to do
> > so.
> >
> >
>
>
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