Sunday, November 30, 2014

amazon comment to stephen robbins "Smarter than Us: rise of machine intelligence"

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I agree with Ted.  I do not think a misunderstanding of the problems A.I. faces in mimicking or superseding human intelligence is necessary ...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

response to Dr Dyer in amazon comments section

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Concerning importance of natural language processing in autonomous thinking machines. ==== 1) When I say "La-La" to my Chihuahua...

desire as a result top-down selection, not a cause, amazon comment

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A virus has no desire, and yet one might destroy us. "Desire" is a suspect term in evolution as is "free will". But as ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

November 7th post to Amazon book "Our Final Invention" (brief and clear)

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comment on Scott Meredith's review: 10% of all humans who have ever been alive are alive today, and humans are the only ones who have ...
Monday, November 17, 2014

bennet on maxwell demon of infinite memory does not work

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Bennett in 1987 Sci Am paper p 116 said remembering the past of the door in an infinite memory is an increase in entropy of the memory.  I t...

Maxwell demon w/ infinite memory = life (response to Arto Anillo, finland researcher)

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I looked at your pdf.  It starts with the assumption that the food contains more G than the eater.  I am considering food that has more U t...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

wikipedia maxwell's demon edit

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In previous discussion "meaning of life" I tried to speculate that maybe a replicator could makes copies from internal energy with...