Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-31 Thread LORENHEYER
Yeah whatever you might want to consider keeping your animals out of plain sight should BO visit your neighborhood, because it's a given that his appetite isn't limited to just Dog yummy!. Oh!, don't forget that BO's IQ is so "HI" that it's literally "off" the charts (actually, it neve

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-29 Thread a.ashfield
Dave wrote:/I would not expect a present day design to behave in/ /a manner that remotely resembles a human. Our brain appears to be a massively parallel data processing environment while most computers process one instruction at a time. We need to understand parallel systems far better/ /b

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-29 Thread David Roberson
A design of this nature might be interesting to follow. Why not add the ability to detect when it is injured by some form of pain response? Then add the other senses to allow the machine to experience things that a new child would encounter. Even with these additions, I would not expect a pr

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Harry Veeder
It does not matter how much a economic system produces, those who have enormous wealth will finds ways to exploit those who have little wealth, unless the over arching political system recognizes and practically honours individual *dignity*. Exploitation can happen even in the admist of abundance.

RE: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
>From Jed: . > I do not see why a totally non-sentient supercomputer would > be impossible. Even if sentience is emergent, I expect it > would not be hard to prevent it by not including some set of > capabilities. The Internet as a whole has more connections > than a human brain, and fa

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
I believe the sentience is an emergent property of biological intelligence. I assume it is related to the instinct for self-preservation. It is easy to preserve yourself if you see a clear distinction between you and the rest of the environment, or you and the other members of your species. An inse

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > The Atlantic sets the stage for the 'scary season' (the election, not > Halloween) with a piece on machine intelligence, echoing Bill Joy's classic > article > > > http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-consequences-of-ma >

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker wrote: > If for some reason robots start fighting robots, I think this advice would > be helpful: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3RoBHMu-o > I love this! The version I just saw begin with a Romney advertisement, which I thought was appropriate. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread David Roberson
with bots as they progressed. Dave -Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha To: vortex-l Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 4:31 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real It could be that a super-intelligent computer would prefer to exist alone, or as the most advanced entity, in order

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: It could be that a super-intelligent computer would prefer to exist alone, > or as the most advanced entity, in order to preserve and impose its > superiority. I take the impression that the Skynet, from the terminator > movie, is the only tru

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
It could be that a super-intelligent computer would prefer to exist alone, or as the most advanced entity, in order to preserve and impose its superiority. I take the impression that the Skynet, from the terminator movie, is the only truly powerful being of the machines whereas the other robots ar

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: > I think the problem is not whether computers "should be designed to be > sentient," so much as "can they be restrained from it." > May-bee. I have read various articles and books about this. Some experts believe that sentience is an emergent quality, others say it would hav

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Alain Sepeda
the opposite. without innovation, exploitation , whatever is the system, can be maintained on a stable minority of dynasties owning an economic rent. Non capitalist/liberal system do that naturally,whatever is the growth/innovation, since they block innovation, or restrict it's benefit to the stabl

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread LORENHEYER
Yeah well, needless to say I obviously have some difficulty explaining the difference between animals and human beings, and it's undoubtedly due to a large percentage of my monkey DNA. Now, as for Halloween, and why humans tend to wear a variety of frightening looking attire, and the more trad

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Harry Veeder
A capitalistic forms of economic exploitation and domination can be reproduced endlessly thanks to 'innovation'. Harry On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Alain Sepeda wrote: > Your vision is quite common but I think it is incomplete and typical of > countries experiencing slow growth, slow product

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Alain Sepeda
Your vision is quite common but I think it is incomplete and typical of countries experiencing slow growth, slow productivity increase... Read "the next convergence" what you describe is the slow growth scenario. In that case, the wealth concentrate slowly in few hands, that are determined since t

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Oct 28, 2012, at 10:04, "Jones Beene" wrote: > This step of self-programming will allow "them" to evolve on their own, and > the time frame could be shorter than expected - without morals, without > "empathy" ... which is essentially what Bill Joy was implying Very interesting thread. I never

RE: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
>From Loren... ... > . Thanks suckers! PS.. If you believe there is an actual Democratic Party > or that BO cares about this Country And on, and on it goes... Ok, Loren, I get it that you're a little uneasy around Barack. .Why? Well, maybe because for one thing, this "illegal

RE: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell Whether these computers will be sentient or not is an entirely different question. Whether they should be deliberately designed to be sentient is both a practical question, and a moral one. I think the problem is not whether computers "should be

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread LORENHEYER
So, for all of you out there who have feelings or emotional attachment for Appliances Power Tools, Suv, Car, Truck, Motor Cycle, Bike, Garden Tractor, ATV, Computer, various Electronic Devices, and/or for that matter, inanimate objects that have added comfort, satisfaction, confidence, or plea

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: To pass the Turing test the 'bot will have to perceive the world as a human: > I doubt a computer will be able to pass a "no rules" Turing test anytime in the next ~100 years. That is, when the test allows the person to type in any question or comment about any subject. I th

RE: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jones Beene
Terry - Fabulous dynamic image ! Fractal gears in motion, and with a ying-yang nuance ... Which is difficult to do with a 'bot mind: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9yog6dUQE1qk2oafo1_500.gif

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Terry Blanton
To pass the Turing test the 'bot will have to perceive the world as a human: http://www.eurasiareview.com/19102012-robots-that-perceive-the-world-as-humans/ Which is difficult to do with a 'bot mind: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9yog6dUQE1qk2oafo1_500.gif

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Yes. Leaving aside nightmare scenarios like nanobot infestations and genetically modified diseases and the rest, sticking strictly to the economic consequences of computer and mechanical technologies: there's some evidence we're seeing these effects right now, in the unemployment numbers. I came u

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
I agree with much of this article, except that I regard intelligent machines as either a threat or an opportunity, depending on how we adapt our society to them. I quibble with one aspect of this discussion: the notion that computers will exceed human intelligence at some specific time in history,