Ian Parker wrote
I would like your
opinion on *proofs* which involve an unproven hypothesis,
I've no elaborated opinion on that.
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Ian Parker wrote
McNamara's dictum seems on
the face of it to contradict the validity of Psychology as a
science.
I don't think so. That in unforseen events people switch to
improvisation isn't suprising. Even an AGI, confronted with a novel
situation and lacking data and models and rules for
Steve Richfield wrote
Have you ever taken a dispute, completely deconstructed it to determine
its structure, engineered a prospective solution, and attempted to
implement it?
No.
How can you, the participants
on this forum, hope to ever bring stability
That depends on your definition of
Jan, Ian, et al,
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Jan Klauck jkla...@uni-osnabrueck.dewrote:
It seems that *getting things right* is not a priority
for politicians.
Keeping things running is the priority.
... and there it is in crystal clarity - how things get SO screwed up in
small
Dave:I believe that technological progress has been accelerating for quite some
time now. In fact, that is hardly debatable
Yes, but that isn't the issue.
What Lanier points out is that so far we only have machines that are
*fragments* of living systems - rather like those horror movies,
Steve Richfield wrote
I suspect that this tool could work better than any AGI in the absence of
such a tool.
I see an AGI more as a support tool that collects and assesses data,
creates and evaluates hypotheses, develops goals and plans how to reach
them and assists people with advice. The
Abram,
This is a very interesting function. I have spent a lot of time thinking
about it. However, I do not believe that does, in any way, prove or
indicate that Solomonoff Induction is convergent. I want to discuss the
function but I need to take more time to study some stuff and to work
