[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have to applaud this comment, and it's general tenor.
-------------- Original message from "Mike Tintner"
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> Every speculation on this board about the nature of future AGI's
has been
> pure fantasy. Even those which try to dress themselves up in some
semblance
> of scientific reasoning.
> [snip Long Rant]
That is a shame, especially given Mike's record of posts on this list.
ost people here would say that he confuses his own lack of understanding
with the fact that what he reads is pure fantasy.
While there are many, many people who just churn out pure-fantasy ideas
about artificial intelligence (Exhibit One: 99% of the science fiction
literature), the purpose of this list is (among other things) to allow
some people who know about the technical details to make informed estimates.
As I said before, Mike's sweeping dismissal could be used to condemn the
work of the Wright brothers, a year before they got off the ground, or
the work of Wernher von Braun et al, ten years before they got a human
on the Moon, or the work of any other group of scientists in the years
leading up to their discoveries.
Richard Loosemore
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