From: Thomas McCabe (pphysics141@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 15:51:03 MST
On Dec 13, 2007 4:50 PM, Lucas Sheehan <lucassheehan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My name is Lucas Sheehan. I am a computer scientist with many
> years of experience in a broad range of systems development, I am
> currently specializing in high performance computing targeted at
> scientific applications. Right now the physical sciences are my
> predominant subject using large scale cluster systems and super
> computing to preform complex weather prediction and weather simulation
> runs. Intelligent systems are becoming more frequent in this field
> for numerous reasons and as such have sparked my interest the concepts
> discussed here. I have no more than a layman's introduction to the
> concept of a Singularity or AI in general. I will be a quite listener
> reviewing the archives as I educate myself. I look forward to reading
> your posts. Oh and hi Mr. Sharp, I blame this on you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lucas
>
Welcome to SL4! This list is specifically for discussing *advanced
topics* in futurism, AGI, etc. Please familiarize yourself with some
of the already-published material before posting; it is the explicit
policy of SL4 not to rehash the basics. It's much easier to learn from
reading the literature than browsing the list archives; there are over
10,000 messages in the archives, far too many for any one person to be
familiar with all of them. In particular, see
http://www.intelligence.org/reading/corereading,
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/tom/bmesa5.pdf,
http://www.yudkowsky.net.
NOTE: By "intelligent systems", we do not mean the types of systems
used in weather forecasting or chess playing. See
http://www.intelligence.org/blog/2007/07/10/the-power-of-intelligence/.
- Tom
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