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Actually, that was the first thing I did, not sure about other people. What I saw was:
Teaches at what appears to be a small private liberal arts college, not a major school.
Out of 20 or so publications listed on http://www.richardloosemore.com/papers, a bunch are unrelated to AI, others are posters and interviews, or even "unpublished", which are all low-confidence media.
Several contributions are entries in conference proceedings (are they peer-reviewed? I don't know) .
A number are listed as "to appear", and so impossible to evaluate.
A few are apparently about dyslexia, which is an interesting topic, but not obviously related to AI.
One relevant paper was in H+ magazine, a place I have never heard of before and apparently not a part of any well-known scientific publishing outlet, like Springer.
I could not find any external references to RL's work except through links to Ben Goertzel (IEET was one exception).
As a result, I was unable to independently evaluate RL's expertise level, but clearly he is not at the top of the AI field, unlike say, Ben Goertzel. Given his poorly written posts and childish behavior here, indicative of an over-inflated ego, I have decided that whatever he writes can be safely ignored. I did not think of him as a crackpot, more like a noise maker.
Admittedly, I am not sold on Eliezer's ideas, either, since many other AI experts are skeptical of them, and that's the only thing I can go by, not being an expert in the field myself. But at least Eliezer has done several impossible things in the last decade or so, which commands a lot of respect, while Richard appears to be drifting along.
That is a very interesting assessment, shminux.
Would you be up for some feedback?
You are quite selective in your catalog of my achievements....
One item was a chapter in a book entitled "Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence". Sure, it was about the consciousness question, but still.
You make a casual disparaging remark about the college where I currently work ... but forget to mention that I graduated from an institution that is ranked in the top 3 or 4 in the world (University College London).
You neglect to mention that I have academic qualifications in multiple fields -- both physics and artificial intelligence/cognitive psychology. I now teach in both of those fields.
And in addition to all of the above, you did not notice that I am (in addition to my teaching duties) an AI developer who works on his projects WITHOUT intending to publish that work all the time! My AI work is largely proprietary. What you see from the outside are the occasional spinoffs and side projects that get turned into published writings. Not to be too coy, but isn't that something you would expect from someone who is actually walking the walk....? :-)
There are a number of comments from other people below about Ben Goertzel, some of them a little strange. I wrote a paper a couple of years ago that Ben suggested we get together to and publish... that is now a chapter in the book "Singularity Hypotheses".
So clearly Ben Goertzel (who has a large, well-funded AGI lab) is not of the opinion that I am a crank. Could I get one point for that?
Phil Goetz, who is an experienced veteran of the AGI field, has on this thread made a comment to the effect that he thinks that Ben Goertzel, himself, and myself are the three people Eliezer should be seriously listening to (since the three of us are among the few people who have been working on this problem for many years, and who have active AGI projects). So perhaps that is two points? Maybe?
And, just out of curiosity, I would invite you to check in with the guy who invented AIXI -- Marcus Hutter. He and I met and had a very long discussion at the 2009 AGI conference. Marcus and I disagree substantially about the theoretical foundations of AI, but in spite of that disagreement I would urge you to ask him if he considers me to be down at the crank level. I might be wrong, but I do not think he would be willing to give me a bad reference. Let me know how that goes, yes?
You also finished off with what I can only describe as one of the most bizarre comparisons I have ever seen. :-) You say "Eliezer has done several impossible things in the last decade or so". Hmmmm....! :-) And yet ... "Richard appears to be drifting along" Well, okay, if you say so .... :-)