Re: [singularity] Invite from Bruce LaDuke ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Atkins
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[singularity] Invite from Bruce LaDuke ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2007-09-07 Thread Bruce LaDuke
BruceLaDuke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has invited you as a friend on Quechup... ...the social networking platform sweeping the globe Go to: http://quechup.com/join.php/aT0wMDAwMDAwMDA5Nzg3ODg0JmM9MTAwNzU5 to accept Bruce's invite You can use Quechup to meet new people, catch up with old friend

[singularity] Re: Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Aleksei Riikonen
On 9/8/07, Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Talking about all this negative stuff is making me feel like a tired and > ranting old man. > > I think I am making things worse instead of better for everyone. No, I do > not know all the answers. No, I am not anyone's daddy. I could even be >

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Quasar Strider
Talking about all this negative stuff is making me feel like a tired and ranting old man. I think I am making things worse instead of better for everyone. No, I do not know all the answers. No, I am not anyone's daddy. I could even be completely, or just half, wrong. I feel the more I talk, the gr

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 08/09/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree this is a great risk. The motivation to upload is driven by fear of > death and our incorrect but biologically programmed belief in consciousness. > The result will be the extinction of human life and its replacement with > godlike in

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Quasar Strider
Talking about all this negative stuff is making me feel like a tired and ranting old man. I think I am making things worse instead of better for everyone. No, I do not know all the answers. No, I am not anyone's daddy. I could even be completely, or just half, wrong. I feel the more I talk, the gr

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Quasar Strider
On 9/8/07, Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An out-of-context quote does not magically overrule > three historical examples. And I can easily provide > more: Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Mendeleev, > etc. Please read some more a

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Tom McCabe
--- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/7/07, Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > --- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > If you want to build a spacecraft, you cannot > simply > > put lots and lots of chimpanzee engineers to work > on > > the problem.

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Tom McCabe
--- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/7/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I see several possible avenues for implementing > a self-aware machine > > which > > > can pass the Turing test

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Quasar Strider
On 9/7/07, Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to build a spacecraft, you cannot simply > put lots and lots of chimpanzee engineers to work on > the problem. A single smart guy- eg., Einstein, > Newton, Hawking- can advance scien

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Quasar Strider
On 9/7/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I see several possible avenues for implementing a self-aware machine > which > > can pass the Turing test: i.e. human level AI. Mechanical and > Electronic. > > However, I see l

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Tom McCabe
--- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I see several possible avenues for implementing a > self-aware machine which > can pass the Turing test: i.e. human level AI. > Mechanical and Electronic. > However, I see little purpose in doing this. Fact > is, we already have self > a

Re: [singularity] Summit on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle!

2007-09-07 Thread Joshua Fox
Thanks. That's actually one of the better-written pieces I've seen in the popular press. Way better than this one in the same publication http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/11/LVG1J459UE1.DTL 2007/9/7, David Orban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The Singularity Summit m

Re: [singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Quasar Strider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I see several possible avenues for implementing a self-aware machine which > can pass the Turing test: i.e. human level AI. Mechanical and Electronic. > However, I see little purpose in doing this. Fact is, we already have self > aware ma

[singularity] Summit on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle!

2007-09-07 Thread David Orban
The Singularity Summit made the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle today! Congratulations to Tyler and the team for the PR coup. Of course the question is also whether the exposure to the public of the meme is a good thing, if the meme of the Singularity is ready for the treatment... http:/

[singularity] Towards the Singularity

2007-09-07 Thread Quasar Strider
Hello, I see several possible avenues for implementing a self-aware machine which can pass the Turing test: i.e. human level AI. Mechanical and Electronic. However, I see little purpose in doing this. Fact is, we already have self aware machines which can pass the Turing test: Humans beings. If w