RE: 'Singularity Realism' - A few thoughts

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 08:24:52 MST


That's silly...

Believe me, most people working on AI do not know the SL4 list exists, and
if they did, they'd think it was mostly a bunch of time-wasting lunacy.

-- Ben G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Healey
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: RE: 'Singularity Realism' - A few thoughts
>
>
> Marc,
>
> This is a good thing! The underpinnings of FAI theory SHOULD be
> disseminated as widely as possible.
>
> But I do notice an increasing tendency to NOT post content related
> directly to useful implementation. From what I can tell, the public
> FLARE language project has been retired because it is considered
> indiscriminate leverage toward ALL possible AIs, and the SIAI has a
> goal of expediting Friendly AI only, not precipitating crisis. I
> expect that since CFAI there has been some reasonable amount of
> progress, much of which the SIAI and Eliezer are intentionally NOT
> shouting from the treetops (yet, at least). Of course, without actual
> information, nothing can be said with any certainty.
>
> Tthings might just be going very slowly.
>
> -Chris Healey
>
>
> > From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org] On Behalf
> > Of Marc Geddes
> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:33 AM
> > To: sl4@sl4.org
> > Subject: 'Singularity Realism' - A few thoughts
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Most of the people working in A.I probably visit sl4
> > and copy everything down. They're probably ripping
> > off all our ideas without a second thought.
> >
>
>



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