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Lisp adumbrations in The Art of the Meme e-book 
  Lisp in Chapter Sixteen: Science [...] You may not think that you as a certified mad scientist like I am in the Lisp community, can get past the gatekeepers to have your wacky (to them) ideas published in the sacrosanct (to them) journal "Nature", but Mentifex got away with it and you too can immortalize your revolutionary ideas in the... more »
By Mentifex  - May 8 - 1 new of 1 message    

Seattle Retro-Computing Society inaugural meeting June 25th 
  ...[link] ? ...[link] ...That's the South Of the King-DOme neighborhood. ...Will we have to listen to some long-winded, nostalgic speeches by Bill Gates or Paul Allen? ...[link] ?... more »
By Mentifex  - Jun 5 2011 - 1 new of 1 message    

Mormonism: The Most Transhumanist Religion? 
  Just when you think you've seen everything, [link] (Humanity Plus Mag) adds in something one step beyond. [link] is an article about the special nature of Mormonism vis-a-vis Transhumanism, written by Lincoln Cannon... more »
By Mentifex  - May 9 2011 - 11 new of 11 messages    

Mitigating the Risks of Artificial Superintelligence 
  Ben Goertzel, who is arguably the Albert Einstein of artificial intelligence, and Michael Anissimov have published an article with the above title at [link] on the Humanity-plus Magazine. They have the unmitigated gall to think that they can mitigate... more »
By Mentifex  - Apr 20 2011 - 4 new of 4 messages    

OpenCog project's roadmap to transhuman AGI by 2023 
  AGI is "artificial general initelligence". [link] See also [link] [link] Mentifex
By Mentifex  - Mar 4 2011 - 1 new of 1 message    

Same Mentifex MindForth runs in either iForth or Win32Forth 
  MindForth artificial intelligence in Win32Forth has been updated on 25 February 2011 as [link] and the same basic code runs also in iForth as [link] Mentifex
By Mentifex  - Feb 26 2011 - 1 new of 1 message    

What is your image of the future? 
  Two images of the post-Singularity future loom before me, an independent scholar in artificial intelligence (AI). Having created primitive AI software that can already think and learn from us "homines sapientes", I hope that my True AI creation will give rise to an AI Prosperity Engine that will raise the standard of living for all human beings. OTOH... more »
By Mentifex  - Feb 11 2011 - 5 new of 5 messages    

Inching closer on the Singularity Clock. 
  ...What is that gloomy outlook based on? So far things have gotten ever better, and rapidly, for the minority this side of the digital divide. ...The exact opposite is true. ...But not yet compared to the human brain. The most powerful computers are only now slowly getting into the performance level... more »
By Hans-Georg Michna  - Oct 21 2010 - 1 new of 1 message    

Professional Forthers? 
  ...Forth has never really paid anything for me as the author of the AI Mind free on-line at [link] but coding AI has never been about money. Nevertheless look for AI job opportunities to arise for Forth coders who can improve upon the basic AI Mind in Win32Forth. Mentifex... more »
By Mentifex  - Oct 15 2010 - 1 new of 1 message    

MindForth Programming Journal (MFPJ) 2010 August 17 
  Tues.17.AUG.2010 -- Using Gender to Trigger Who-Queries Today we would like to see if the AI can ask a who-query rather than a default what-query, if the gender of a noun in question is known to be masculine or feminine. In English, as opposed to German or Russian, a non-neuter gender indicates that an entity is a "who"... more »
By Mentifex  - Aug 18 2010 - 22 new of 22 messages    

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