Re: answers I'd like from an SI

From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2007 - 19:48:42 MST


--- Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com> wrote:

> At 07:20 PM 11/11/2007 -0500, Peter de Blanc wrote:
>
> >what if someone from 1700 CE asked you how fire works?
> >Would you say "I know the answer, but I am not able to communicate it to
> >you"?
>
> what if someone from 17000 BCE asked you how fire works?
> Would you say "I know the answer, but I am not able to communicate it to
> you"?

Not the same. An SI trying to communicate with a human would be like a human
trying to communicate with an insect.

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com



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