Re: Microsoft aflare

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 19:35:58 MST


Gordon Worley wrote:
>
> Looks like the boys at MS like what Eli is doing:
>
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-842922.html
>
> There's one real language, and then lots of `skins' that make the
> language pretty to you (though maybe not anyone else). Hmm, I seem to
> remember reading about this somewhere before ...

We can either invent Flare all at once, or watch it be reinvented, poorly,
one piece at a time, over the next ten years. Let's at least give Microsoft
one unified source to steal their ideas from, that's my motto.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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