From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 03:51:11 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> Speaking of Algernae, of course, I've noticed that memory seems to be
> the easiest thing to enhance, in both mice (Doogie) and humans (the
> whole cholinergic thing). I repeat my previous guess that augmented
> memory trades off with flexibility of memory in some way, possibly even
> with the ability to think about symbols consciously and manipulate their definitions.
Perhaps. Some of my results in my memory models imply that having a
memory that learns quickly means that the generalisation ability
becomes less good. However, what the optimal level of generalisation
is depends a lot on the environment - a change that would be bad for a
cro magnon hunter might be a great improvement for a programmer.
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