Re: [agi] Real world effects on society after development of AGI????

2004-01-15 Thread Yan King Yin
From: Brad Wyble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Phillip wrote: >> >> The significant acceleration of the mentation rate is only possible with >> the introduction of 'Lamarkian' upgrading of the mentation systems eg. >> the introduction of AGI technology either as new AGI entities or as >> augmentation o

RE: [agi] Real world effects on society after development of AGI????

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
Yan kan yin wrote: > >Well there's a possible hybrid situation, in which a person sits atop a > >network of sophisticated tools that vastly increases their effective > >intelligence (ie Gargoyle). This situation exists right now, but it's > >possible that advances in HCI will enable computer aide

RE: [agi] Real world effects on society after development of AGI????

2004-01-15 Thread Brad Wyble
Ben Wrote: > > 1) AI is a tool and we're the user, or > > 2) AI is our successor and we retire, or > > 3) The Friendliness scenario, if it's really feasible. > > This collapse of a huge spectrum of possibilities into three > human-society-based categories isn't all that convincing to me... > Ye

Re: [agi] One AGI or many?

2004-01-15 Thread Charles Hixson
Philip Sutton wrote: ... I know that, given the cost limitation that hardware imposes, there will be an incentive to have fewer more powerful AGIs (down to one?) rather than have more less powerful AGIs. However, I think there might be a counterveiling incentive. ... Maybe the most successful

[agi] manuscript for comment

2004-01-15 Thread Pei Wang
Hi, I recently finished a book draft on my research toward AGI. The Table of Contents and Preface can be found at http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/drafts/Contents-Preface.pdf. Now I'd like to have the English corrected by native English speakers, as well as to get some comments on the contents. I

RE: [agi] One AGI or many?

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
This theme of "partial mind-melds" between future AI's, leading to a kind of hybrid between a society and an individual, was discussed in a paper I wrote last year, which was (I think) briefly discussed on this list. I called this kind of hybrid being a "mindplex"; see.. http://www.goertzel.org/

[agi] Odd error in "Mindplex" paper

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi all, Someone just pointed out to me, offlist, an embarrassing "typographical" oddity in my online paper on Mindplexes. > I'm generally a silent observer of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I > wanted to point out an apparent typographical oversight or potentially > distasteful 'hack' in your p

[agi] RE: Odd error in "Mindplex" paper

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
p.s. I'm surprised no one pointed out this aberration in the paper to me before, but, I guess that's an indication of how few people have read that paper in the months since i posted it ;-) ben g > -Original Message- > From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, Janua