Recent content by DC Reade

It's impossible to prove a negative. It's an essentially non-falsifiable proposition.

That's a risible statement. After all, the history of human scientific endeavor has hardly even begun to ask questions, much less answering them all.

That's a good question. I think that in order to begin to answer it, one needs to consider exactly what conditions differentiate the human condition from that of a machine. Human are living organisms. Living organisms possesses an innate sense of mortality, a sensorium, a body image, an actual...

My self-aware consciousness doesn't compartmentalize all that discretely, for better or worse. I wasn't aware that "mixing keywords" constitutes a problem for the readers here, either. A Turing test of a machine intelligence that's only permitted to make a narrow set of inquiries, or one with...

I get that there are people who believe this. I'd just like to learn of some evidence that they've managed to model it at the level of flatworms. Or living organisms of even more simplicity than that. Actually, it's more about my questions pertaining to the possible perspective of the machine...

The conversation can't simply be carried on with abstractions and generalizations, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test I'd submit that much depends on the mental acuity of the human doing the interrogation. Trick questions are allowed. Like, ask why a hen lays its egg while it's still flying. Although it might be much simpler just to talk about one's case of the runs...

So it's a meaningless statement. You're implying the capability of obtaining access to an infinite amount of everything. A metaphysical proposition of the most ambitious sort, garbed as if it were a physical truism.

If you know of any evidence that any directed efforts are being made to address the specific problems I've mentioned, I'd like to hear it. The AGI researchers I've encountered all seem to think that those problems will simply resolve spontaneously as an emergent phenomenon once a machine is...

"Computers are Turing-complete, they can simulate everything in the universe given enough computing power, space and time." Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/today-i-learned.783257/page-130 An easy statement to make, as an abstraction with no limits placed on the parameters.

From the NYTimes column you linked: "Researchers have been experimenting for decades with methods for imbuing A.I. systems with intuitive common sense and robust humanlike generalization abilities, but there has been little progress in this very difficult endeavor." It may not be possible. I'd...