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If you started going to college and actually worked at it a bit you could have skipped to Ph.D. work if you wanted to I did. I skipped all of the B.S. and M.S. work straight to Ph.D. But if your math that you've posted is any sign of the state of your knowledge I don't hold much hope of that happening, since you can't seem to do basic derivatives correctly. When I started skipping classes for example skipping all of calculus and linear algebra to differential equations I had a partially finished a manuscript on solving differential equations that I have been working on for a while. Now the question that logically pops up is do I have Ph.D. now? No, I am taking a break from that to start a company or three if I can.
"GenericThinker is simply extremely confused - as the comments about the halting problem make abundantly clear. I would comment on the idea of singletons being ruled out by the speed of light - but I can't think of anything polite to say."
Well I take this as a complement coming from people who post here. If an ignorant person thinks your wrong chances are your on the right track. If you want to correct my idea feel free but if this is the best you've got parroting Eliezer comment then I have nothing to fear. Eliezer comments about my post already having proved false once since my comments on the importance of computational power effecting future chip designs were right on the money, but of course they were since I have actually designed computer chips before big surprise some who posts here actually posting based on knowledge I would encourage you Tim to look into that concept and try it out.
"GenericThinker, please stop posing as an authority on things you know very little about (e.g. the halting problem). If you don't actually work at Intel or another chip fab, I'm not particularly interested in your overestimates of how much you know about the field."
As to the point of the halting problem, my point is correct the question of whether a given AI program halts may not be particularly interesting but my response was directed at the post above mine which I took to be implying that since and AGI is not an arbitrary program therefore the halting problem does not apply. If I miss understood the persons post fine I retract my comment. If that was what was meant then I am correct. Since all the halting problem does is ask the question given some program and some input does the program halt or go on infinitely? That is computability 101, it is also related to Godel's Incompleteness theorem.
"GenericThinker, please stop posing as an authority on things you know very little about (e.g. the halting problem). If you don't actually work at Intel or another chip fab, I'm not particularly interested in your overestimates of how much you know about the field."
How precisely do you know I have never worked at intel? You have admitted you don't know this issue so how would you have a clue whether I am right (cite your sources to prove me wrong)? In fact I am correct the ability to simulate in real-time is directly related to the amount of computational power available which greatly effects the level of complexity you can design into... (read more)
"If anyone from Intel reads this, and wishes to explain to me how it would be unbelievably difficult to do their jobs using computers from ten years earlier, so that Moore's Law would slow to a crawl - then I stand ready to be corrected. But relative to my present state of partial knowledge, I would say that this does not look like a strong feedback loop, compared to what happens to a compound interest investor when we bound their coupon income at 1998 levels for a while."
This is simple to disprove whether being part of intel or not. The issue is that since current processors with multiple cores and millions-now... (read more)
That is not completely true the halting problem deals with any program then taking some given input trying to determine if the program goes into an infinite loop or not. The question can be asked of any program and is formally undecidable. So AGI would not be exempt from the halting program, it just may not be an interesting question to ask of an AGI program.
"But the much-vaunted "massive parallelism" of the human brain, is, I suspect, mostly cache lookups to make up for the sheer awkwardness of the brain's serial slowness - if your computer ran at 200Hz, you'd have to resort to all sorts of absurdly massive parallelism to get anything done in realtime. I suspect that, if correctly designed, a midsize computer cluster would be able to get high-grade thinking done at a serial speed much faster than human, even if the total parallel computing power was less."
That is just patently false, the brain is massively parallel and the parallelism is not cache look-ups it would be more like current GPUs. The computational... (read more)
"The explosion in computing capability is a historical phenomenon that has been going on for decades. For "specific numbers", for example, look at the well-documented growth of the computer industry since the 1950s. Yes, there are probably limits, but they seem far away - so far away, we are not even sure where they are, or even whether they exist."
The growth you are referring to has a hard upper limit which is when transistors are measured in angstroms, at the point when they start playing by the rules of quantum mechanics. That is the hard upper limit of computing that you are referring to. Now if we take quantum computing that may or may not take us further there has been a lot of work done recently that casts doubt on quantum computing and its ability to solve a lot of our computing issues. There are a lot of other possible computing technologies it is just not clear which one will emerge at the top yet.
I really fail to understand this entire issue of anti-theism. If we think about the question logically, I think we can all say humans are defective and that we are not terribly moral agents. Whether God exists or not doesn't seem to be very relevant in the sense that whether one be an atheist a theist or whatever the idea of becoming a better person morally etc is still important. I would argue that whether you believe in God or not if that belief unfounded or not drives you to behave in a more moral way then so be it. I think it is a fundamental waste of time to debate the... (read more)
Mike
"Can't do basic derivatives? Seriously?!? I'm for kicking the troll out. His bragging about mediocre mathematical accomplishments isn't informative or entertaining to us readers."
Did you look at his derivatives? "dy/dt = F(y) = Ay whose solution is y = e^(At)" How is e^(at) = dy/dt=ay Basic derivatives 101 d/dx e^x = e^x
"Solving
dy/dt = e^y
yields
y = -ln(C - t)"
again dy/dt=e^y does not equal -ln(c-t) unless e is not the irrational constant that it is normally even if that it is the case the solution is still wrong... again refer to a basic derivative table...
So I am a troll because I point out errors? Ok, fine then I am a troll and will never come back. Thats interesting... (read more)