On 3/16/07, Joshua Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why has the singularity and AGI not triggered such an interest? Thiel's donations to SIAI seem like the exception which highlights the rule. Joshua ------------------------------
The issue at hand is that AGI has a very high failure rate, and the singularity scenario is plausible speculation at best. I am sure many would love to see a singularity, but the singularity efforts are not developed enough to attract reasonable funding from philantropists. How do you know that the money will not go towards failure? Myself, like many on this list, believe that those failures don't necessarily have to always happen, but try telling that to Bill Gates. By the way, the quote by Gates on the back of "The Singularity is Near" said that an AGI would be worth 10 Microsofts. If you were Bill Gates, would you want to give your competitors enough funding to develop AGI and then be worth ten Microsofts? The singularity would probably change the meaning of money and commerce, but try telling that to Bill Gates, or anybody who has spent an entire life around money. Mark Nuzzolilo ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
