Dear Russell: When you can design and build a machine that builds itself, not its replicant but itself, then I will heed better your advice.
wrb > -----Original Message----- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- > l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:11 PM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Why AI is impossible > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: > > John: > > > > > > > > Regardless of your dislike for the term omniscience versus > universality, the > > Turing machine > > > > can compute all computable computations, and this simply by virtue of > its > > construction. > > > > > > > > wrb > > John is right - omniscience is a different concept to > universality. For the sake of clearer conversation, it is better to > keep that in mind, rather than arbitrarily redefining words "Humpty > Dumpty" like. > > Of course, if there is no accepted definition for a concept, it is OK > to propose another one. But please restrict it to concepts that are > logically sound, and be prepared to drop your own definition if a > better one comes along. > > Cheers > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything- > list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
