From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Thu Oct 15 2009 - 10:38:33 MDT
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 "Robin Lee Powell"
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> said:
> You asserted that such a mind without a "fixed goal system" was
> impossible,
JESUS CHRIST! I MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT!! I asserted that a mind WITH a
"fixed goal system" was impossible.
John K Clark
and yet, 90+% of human parents raise their children
> without ever getting bored and leaving them to die. Proof by
> existence: many human minds succeed at this, and without getting
> into infinite loops.
>
> We only need to create one such mind; this isn't a random search
> through mind space, any more than you get a car by randomly throwing
> molecules together.
>
> -Robin
>
> --
> They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
> And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
> other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
-- John K Clark johnkclark@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html
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