Re: [agi] a2i2 news update

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Babian
Not only that, if you work in IT, you might think, considering how poorly adding people to a project works, is he getting desperate or just being foolish? andi On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:25:56 -0700 (PDT), Ton Genah wrote Just increasing the number doesn’t guarantee a clear path towards increased

RE: [agi] a2i2 news update

2007-07-26 Thread Peter Voss
Just a quick note: While Rand's writings helped me a lot to clarify/solve a number of crucial philosophical/moral questions, I certainly don't subscribe to either all of her fictional characters' actions, or that of many of her 'true blue' followers. In fact, I don't think that Rand herself was a

Re: [agi] a2i2 news update

2007-07-26 Thread Robert Wensman
What worries me is that the founder of this company subscribes to the philosophy of Objectivism, and the implications this might have for the company's possibility at achieving friendly AI. I do not know about the rest of their team, but some of them use the word rational a lot, which could be a

Re: [agi] a2i2 news update

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Tintner
Peter V: Back to building brains. Peter, I notice, from your pages, you believe in a mechanistically-based free will. That's interesting to me because you are the first such person of any standing in AGI or related fields, that I have come across. All the others I know of - such as Ben, Pei,