Mark_Friedenbach comments on [LINK] Engineering General Intelligence (the OpenCog/CogPrime book) - Less Wrong

9 [deleted] 11 August 2014 07:35PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (11)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2014 04:10:15PM *  3 points [-]

I was going to respond with a biting "well then what the heck is the point of LW?" post, but I think you got the point:

I don't think the philosophy is going to stay afloat for very long if it's practitioners aren't able to follow the technical details of what people are actually doing in the domain they'd like to philosophize about.

Frankly without a willingness to educate oneself about implementation details, the philosophizing is pointless. Maybe this is a wakeup call for me to go find a better community :\

EDIT: Who created the StarDestroy AI mini-FAQ? Do we know their real-world identity?

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 13 August 2014 05:07:17AM 2 points [-]

Frankly without a willingness to educate oneself about implementation details, the philosophizing is pointless. Maybe this is a wakeup call for me to go find a better community :\

I was hoping more of a study technical AI details and post about them here, but whatever works. If you do find a better community, post a note here somewhere.

EDIT: Who created the StarDestroy AI mini-FAQ? Do we know their real-world identity?

Michael Wilson, looks like.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2014 07:10:55PM *  2 points [-]

My goal is to enact a positive singularity. To that end I'm not convinced of the instrumentality of educating people on the interwebs, given other things I could be doing.

I had thought that a community with a tight focus on 'friendly AGI' would be interested in learning, and discussing how such an AGI might actually be constructed, or otherwise getting involved in some way. If not, I don't think it's worth my time to correct this mistake.

Comment author: Lumifer 13 August 2014 07:42:17PM -2 points [-]

I'm not convinced of the instrumentality of educating people on the interwebs

Oh really? :-D