>I've been a computer scientist for 25 years, and I've always tried to approach everything on the most basic terms of information, transformation, and IO. I revisit this fundamental way of conceptualizing daily, no matter what problem I'm working on.
Indeed. Breaking things down to their most raw and simplistic forms allow you to build them back up as you see fit or translate something from one domain to another. Through the deconstruction effort, you maintain the formula and methods to construct it back with confidence :)
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Like you, I can't fathom what the objection is to AGI. A human body is complex, but human behavior is simply not that complex in the grand scheme. I have never encountered or thought of any theoretical difficulty with an algorithm mimicking human behavior, or the behavior of a vastly more intelligent sci-fi AI for that matter.
Well, it depends how deep underneath it all you want to go. You can create a mimic machine or you can really get underneath the hidden layers and concepts and get at the root and create a truly artificial version of something. You have to be willing to dig deep and pursue answers wherever they are to be found even when they contradict your fundamental world view.
> I don't care whether AGI has internal subjective experience. At least, I don't care beyond circular philosophical musing. I certainly don't care as regards the construction of AI, because it has no bearing on the construction of AI for the foreseeable future.
Good, you have to be willing to put all your preconceived notions out to pasture. If you come to have a solid model that includes x,y,z or excludes it, it shouldn't matter as long as the model functions and is true to a stand-alone computational engine.
> AGI is going to sneak up on everybody incrementally, and intelligent people will still be arguing about whether it's possible, even while it happens.
Yeah, I kept asking myself why hasn't someone just gotten in the pits and started stringing together and forming a system. I got tired of asking questions and yelling out on an airhorn "this way everybody". So, I spent ~3 years researching the matter, created conceptual and computational models, and am now developing them.
>AGI is going to sneak up on everybody incrementally, and intelligent people will still be arguing about whether it's possible, even while it happens.
*nods head
