I have maintained for ages that terminological and polemical discussions are fruitless and therefore fit for fools. However, every now and then we are being forced into such trivial controversy. I will reminisce an old foe from the glorious days
An extensive post on translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell
translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell. Ah, I just stumbled on this page while searching for what people use for a composition operator in O’Caml. It gives a comprehensive guide to translating among these languages.
Pei Wang on the Path to Artificial General Intelligence
Pei Wang on the Path to Artificial General Intelligence. Ben Goertzel interviews Pei Wang. The interview does contain some interesting questions. It sounds as if Ben believes in a kind of “embodied inteligence”. However, it also seems to me that
Autonomous AI: reptile, human or better?
Presently, most researchers assume that a general-purpose human-level or beyond AI system must be autonomous. This is mostly due to AIMA’s agent designs and Hutter’s version of intelligence definitions that emphasize agent design. That is to say, an agent thinks
He’s the one they call Dr. Feelgood: Mark Walker
Walker.’s original article. Oh well, Mark, I think you want us to feel really joyful! Wake up with a surge of happiness in the morning, have a great breakfast, go to work, work, lunch, work, work, until we drop dead,
Cross-check: Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?
Cross-check: Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?. I kind of like the author’s approach to this not-so-plausible sort of scientific speculation. Carl Sagan famously drew a line between the scientifically plausible and implausible sorts of
Non-blocking MPI calls for O’Caml
I think O’Caml is a great language for parallel algorithm development. I have written two parallel codes in O’Caml, one is my AI system called the examachine, and the other is a parallel information-retrieval code which I cannot specify yet
The failure of the “Friendly AGI” notion and a case for free AGI.
It sounds like most folks don’t have a clue about how an AGI would work. Let us remember where the generality of an AGI comes from. An AGI has universal intelligence, because it has in its possession a universal computer,
Appear less on facebook
It is not wise to store much private information on the servers of a corporation which is interested in making a profit from the data you inadvertently give them. Furthermore, it is not a good idea to store public information
Introducing…
Hello there, This is my first WordPress blog! I have been posting forever on the Internet, but it has taken more than a while for me to jump on the weblog bandwagon. You may remember me from endless discussions on