From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 10 2008 - 18:33:29 MDT
--- Vladimir Nesov <robotact@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Evolution is a chaotic process, like the weather. A tiny movement of
>> my finger today affects the number of hurricanes we will have next
year.
>> We do have the ability to profoundly affect the form that AI will take,
>> but unfortunately we won't have the computational power to predict
those
>> effects until after they have occurred.
>>
>
> Saying that it's you who affects the weather by moving a finger is as
> meaningful as saying that it's you who affects the weather by flapping
> of the wings of a butterfly on another continent.
I never claimed that I affect the movement of my finger. My mind can be
simulated by a deterministic computer, no?
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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