From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 14:39:15 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> I'm going to cut the discussion and cut to the chase...
>
>>I reply that the class of systems humanly chunkable into human-sized
>>sub-regularities arranged in a holonic structure of humanly understandable
>>combinatorial complexity, is a tiny subset of the set of possible systems
>>with chunkable regularity, holonic structure, and compressible
>>combinatorial complexity.
>
> Jesus H. fuckin Christ! (Pardon my language here). I read this over
> three times before I think I groked it. And while I generally agree
> the question I have to ask is "are there more than a dozen people
> on the planet who can understand this statement?"
There are a few more than there were before I made the statement. My work
here is done.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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