Re: [sl4] Alan Turing's results are profound

From: Gwern Branwen (gwern0@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 15 2009 - 10:49:25 MDT


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:38 PM, John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 "Robin Lee Powell"
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> said:
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>> You asserted that such a mind without a "fixed goal system" was
>> impossible,
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> JESUS CHRIST! I MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT!! I asserted that a mind WITH a
> "fixed goal system" was impossible.
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>  John K Clark
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>  and yet, 90+% of human parents raise their children
>> without ever getting bored and leaving them to die.  Proof by
>> existence: many human minds succeed at this, and without getting
>> into infinite loops.

An obvious typo, as the following paragraph makes clear; somehow, I
don't think Robin is crediting humanity's success at childrearing to
humans constantly shifting their goals.

-- 
gwern


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