Re: [agi] Dangerous Ideas

2008-10-11 Thread Jim Bromer
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't really know what you mean by a primary decision process? In OpenCogPrime, probabilistic logic is not *the* primary decision process However, it is one of the major ingredients that goes into decisions the system

Re: [agi] Dangerous Ideas

2008-10-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
Can you provide me with a link to how you deal with explanations and reasons in OCP? Jim Bromer That topic is so broad I wouldn't know what to do except to point you to PLN generally.. http://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Logic-Networks-Comprehensive-Framework/dp/0387768718 (alas the book

[agi] Dangerous Ideas

2008-10-10 Thread Jim Bromer
Ben said: Maybe the reason people don't know what you mean, is that your manner of phrasing the issue is so unusual? Could you elaborate the problem you refer to, perhaps using some examples? It's easier to explain how an AGI design would deal with a certain example situation or issue, than how it

Re: [agi] Dangerous Ideas

2008-10-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
If my impression of these discussions is accurate, if the partisan arguments for logic, probability or neural networks and the like are really arguments for choosing one or the other as a preponderant decision process, then it is my opinion that the discussants are missing the major problem.