From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 09:05:06 MST
--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Stuart Armstrong <dragondreaming@googlemail.com> wrote:
> That's not Eliezer's point. He's taking issue with your contention
> that AI is solveable for $1 quadrillion. It would be like Victorian
> scientist in 1830 saying that "heavier than air flight is solevable
> for such an amount" or "predicting the weather ten weeks in advance is
> solveable for such an amount". We don't really have much of a clue of
> the feasability of AI, so all these cost estimates are
> pretty much guesswork.
It doesn't need to be guesswork. My research is focused on answering the question. http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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