Re: [singularity] New list announcement: fai-logistics

2008-04-26 Thread Samantha Atkins
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Thomas McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Samantha Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas McCabe wrote: > > > Popularity is irrelevant. > > Popularity, of course, is not the ultimate judge of accuracy. But are > you seriousl

Re: [singularity] New list announcement: fai-logistics

2008-04-26 Thread Richard Loosemore
Thomas, The argument I presented is *not* a restatement of Rice's theorem, because the concept of the size of a scientific theory is not something that maps onto the parallel concept of the size of a functions, algorithm or program. In order to map theory-size onto algorithm-size it would b

Re: [singularity] New list announcement: fai-logistics

2008-04-26 Thread Thomas McCabe
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Samantha Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas McCabe wrote: > > > > > Does NASA have a coherent response to the moon hoax theory? > > > This is completely uncalled for. No particular theory of AGI at this time > disserves to be compared to the moon hoax cons