Re: Bogus Threat Title[ WAS Bogus Neuroscience [WAS Re: [agi] Human memory and number of synapses]

2007-10-21 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
It took me at least five years of struggle to get to the point where I could start to have the confidence to call a spade a spade, and dismiss stuff that looked like rubbish. Now, you say we have to forgive academics for doing this? The hell we do. If I see garbage being peddled as if

Re: Bogus Threat Title[ WAS Bogus Neuroscience [WAS Re: [agi] Human memory and number of synapses]

2007-10-21 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
And you are also not above making patronizing remarks in which you implicitly refer to someone as behaving in a simian -- i.e. monkey-like manner. Hey, I'm a monkey too -- and I'm pretty tired of being one. Let's bring on the Singularity already!!! If you read the paper I just wrote,