From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 02:43:28 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:
> Oh, why bother. I really am starting to get a bit frustrated over here. I've
> been talking about this for weeks and it doesn't seem to have any effect
> whatsoever. Nobody is even bothering to distinguish between subgoals and
> supergoals. You're all just playing with words.
Ahem. Pot calling the kettle black.
The reason we can't connect is, well, because you seem to be just
playing with words. There are serious objections to the way you want
to build the thing and what the thing is supposed to do which can only
be resolved by showing evidence.
Maybe it is really time to fire up the text editor to begin with the
architecture outline. Look at packages which adaptively rewrite parts
of their source (maybe James Rogers will part with some of his
proprietary magick), at the way they do it, and on their
limitations. Because the system will have to be distributed, and hence
portable, it is probably a good idea to use Java. Latest compilers
seem to have reduced the performace gap to just a factor of 2-3. You
might want put it up at SourceForge, or keep it closed source,
whatever makes more sense.
But whatever you do, your ASCII should come as specs and source, not
posts, if you want to convince us.
And nothing convinces like a killer demo.
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