I have just joined this group from following the link from DeGaris' new web site. I read all of the archived messages and see that the group is not that ...
JackJennings@...
Feb 10, 2000 4:56 pm
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I also recently joined via the same route, and though I have not got too into the technical yet, I do have a few thoughts to share, and some more questions. ...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 12, 2000 7:12 pm
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... The answer depends on whether you are a Terran or a Cosmist. Cheers, --J. R. Molloy http://www.shasta.com/jr...
J. R. Molloy
jr@...
Feb 13, 2000 8:26 pm
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The answer depends on whether you are a Terran or a Cosmist. ?Very cryptic. Are we not all Cosmists here? Tony ...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 14, 2000 3:22 pm
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Tony, How do you know that "artilects" are not getting noticed -- what, just because you don't find much in the press about it? -Wolfspider ... From: "Tony...
Jeff Western
wolfspider@...
Feb 14, 2000 7:53 pm
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Hi Tony, I believe there is not too much enthusiasm for AI because people have been promising too much for years. Back when AI first came out in the 1960's ...
Ben Houston
ben@...
Feb 15, 2000 2:08 am
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How do you know that "artilects" are not getting noticed? * A number of projects have shown proof of concept, yet hard AI still seems to be gasping for real...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 15, 2000 1:34 pm
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Thank you Jack Jennings for the referral to DeGaris' website. Thank you Ben Houston for the book referrals. I am a writer and am currently working on a piece...
Jeff Western
wolfspider@...
Feb 16, 2000 1:17 am
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I see nothing to prevent an artilect taking the side of the Terrans. After all, some humans have taken the side of other primates in danger of extinction. A ...
J. R. Molloy
jr@...
Feb 16, 2000 4:07 am
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The Forbidden Planet is also quite appropriate here (in a fashion): An alien species 'goes cosmist', but doesn't account for "the monsters from the id". ...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 16, 2000 12:08 pm
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... If a Terran opposes all fundamental changes to the human condition, and a Cosmist wants to create AIs at (almost) any cost, then I'm neither. Why on earth...
D.den Otter
neosapient@...
Feb 16, 2000 2:45 pm
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I am very new to all this, but it is difficult to see any major differences between Cosmism and Transhumanism. The main distinction seems to come after we...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 17, 2000 3:35 pm
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... Hi den Otter, You posted the following last December: "You can join the list at: http://www.onelist.com/community/transvision or drop me a note with...
J. R. Molloy
jr@...
Feb 17, 2000 5:03 am
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Well spoken, D.den Otter ... From: "D.den Otter" <neosapient@...> To: Artilect@onelist.com Sent: February 16, 2000 2:45:36 PM GMT Subject: Re:...
Jeff Western
wolfspider@...
Feb 17, 2000 7:59 pm
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Hi, Although I do not believe that a super intelligence computer will be much of a threat -- its just a box really. I do see potential combinations of humans...
Ben Houston
ben@...
Feb 18, 2000 4:43 am
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Some answers to Ben Houston's questions, the way I see them: Distributed AI, even in first implementations, will play the role in knowledge that financial...
Sasha Chislenko
sasha1@...
Feb 18, 2000 5:33 am
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Indeed, let us become as gods. Then shall humans and their paltry machinations wither away, displaced by hyper-cognitive transhumans. --J. R. How do we decide...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 18, 2000 11:03 am
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Artlects as politicians? I am thinking that while religion still has such a large sway over global politics this will be difficult (does not compute). And...
Tony Savage
a_lsavage@...
Feb 18, 2000 11:46 am
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... Yes, that's correct. With transhumanism, we merge with our machines, symbiotically. IOW, we become bionic cyborgs. With de Garis' Cosmism, we build ...
J. R. Molloy
jr@...
Feb 18, 2000 6:49 pm
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Hi Tony, I wouldn't say that Artilects become politicians but simply efficient planners or coordinators. I guess I mean that my form of Artilects would use...
Ben Houston
ben@...
Feb 20, 2000 5:00 am
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Hi Sasha, I guess the ideas that I was throwing out had at least a little basis in your essays. I have read them a year ago and every once in a while I refer ...
Ben Houston
ben@...
Feb 20, 2000 5:38 am
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... If only an artilect could deal with that, then obviously "we" would not need to make a decision about transhuman opportunity. The decision as to whether...
J. R. Molloy
jr@...
Feb 20, 2000 6:29 pm
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... In further support of your comments, I'd add that we might allow artilects to manage politics, so that *we* can think about better things than petty...
J. R. Molloy
jr@...
Feb 20, 2000 6:36 pm
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http://www.cyc.com/halslegacy.html...
ozze@...
Mar 5, 2000 8:51 pm
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Yes, I am familiar with the CYC (pronounced as "psych"?) project. I do not have too much confidence in its success by itself. It seems to be based on the...
Ben Houston
ben@...
Mar 5, 2000 11:34 pm
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I have established a new Intranet for all things ARTILECT! join it..and lets discuss the coming of ULTRA INTELLIGENT MACHINES! ...
ozze@...
Mar 8, 2000 7:04 pm
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What's the registration code? It won't let you sign up without it. josh...
Josh Martin
martin.907@...
Mar 8, 2000 10:22 pm
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the registration number is uu66aw...
ozze@...
Mar 8, 2000 10:56 pm
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Computing Japan article December 1999 Volume 6 no.12 de Garis on the future Do cyberwars await an unwary humanity? by Hugh Ashton What does a "mad scientist"...
ozze@...
Mar 12, 2000 2:46 am
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The article I read from Hugh Ashton makes me react cos he asks the only question I always wanted to ask : what about the "human touch", this emotion we can...
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