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Hi Lensman (And in case you didn't know - just in case as I've been silent for a long time - I'm the owner of this list :-) ). Please don't worry if the topic...
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David Gordon
degordon3000
Dec 7, 2007 10:19 am
Can't remember who first said about reloading as I can't find the email (Marten?) Don't forget that paranoia is also likely to be developed in such a system so...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 7, 2007 11:02 am
... Hi, David! (And that's why I go by "Lensman". My real name is David, also; less confusion that way.) I'm glad to know who's boss in here. ... Thanks....
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David Gordon
degordon3000
Dec 7, 2007 11:07 am
If your wood working hobby relates to a character in Known Space then I can't see it as being a problem. :-) Craft wood 70%? People can just delete mails if...
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David Gordon
degordon3000
Dec 7, 2007 11:13 am
For those that don't already know this one - so again - apologies for insulting people. This is a tough item. On the one hand we don't want to ruin the...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 7, 2007 11:22 am
... Well, that's the HAL scenario. An A.I. which is paranoid and sees an attempt to turn it off as a threat which it needs to counter. My question is: Why...
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Aplin Alexander T
alex_aplin
Dec 7, 2007 11:34 am
... after a certain period of time ... It's a long time since I read the MKW story, but it didn't jar my suspension of disbelief at the time. It may have used...
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David Gordon
degordon3000
Dec 7, 2007 11:38 am
I think the situation here was that somebody used the mind map of a human as a basis for an existing neural net. And as we all know - we humans are flawed....
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Tim Atkinson
betalyrae
Dec 7, 2007 11:50 am
Just be TANJ careful when turning wood from stage trees J Cheers --Tim Regards --Tim Atkinson IT Manager NPA Group +44 (0)1732 865023 http://www.npagroup.com ...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 7, 2007 11:59 am
... Because (a) They set up the project on the moon, and they ran out of money to continue the project. (b) There's no reason to think the second (or 500th)...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 7, 2007 12:05 pm
... Yup, that's a good answer. Perhaps this isn't precisely what you meant, but I'd put this as "You have to program the AI to think like a human so that i...
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David Gordon
degordon3000
Dec 7, 2007 1:05 pm
Is it the old bugbear of Science Fiction - the robots who will take away our free will? ;-) There might have been a secret ARM experiment into AI robots to...
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David Fraser
davidkfraser
Dec 7, 2007 1:46 pm
... Off/On-topicness aside, I have a particular interest in answering this, as I'm running a game which features such an A.I... If I were the A.I. whom the...
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Tim Atkinson
betalyrae
Dec 7, 2007 2:26 pm
Have you guys ever read Accelerando by Charles Stross - (Highly recommended) but it deals with AI's and survivability quite well.... (one protagonist at one...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 7, 2007 6:18 pm
... Well, then why bother calling it A.I.? If we have a fully independent cybernetic being, which considers itself the equal of humans and expects to be...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 7, 2007 6:27 pm
... No, but I've read James P. Hogan's /Code of the Lifemaker/, which postulated robotic "life-forms" which thru competition evolved to become quite human-like...
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Gerall Kahla
gerallkahla
Dec 7, 2007 6:48 pm
... Now, that's a lovely image! *WHOOSH* -- Gerall Kahla...
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David Fraser
davidkfraser
Dec 7, 2007 8:51 pm
... expects ... Good point. Let me see if I can answer that... an A.I. is more flexible in nature. It can be smarter (or less smart) than a human: more...
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marten_vanwier
Dec 7, 2007 9:20 pm
Hello all, First of all, I didn't bring up the subject of restoring one of those Known Space AI's by reloading them, interesting premise though. I am probably...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 8, 2007 1:27 am
... No, that was me. :) ... If the A.I. makes *physical* changes in its neural network as it learns, in the way that the human brain makes neural connections...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 8, 2007 1:35 am
... If the brain wants its body back, then it never would have passed the psych profiling that Eric the Cyborg went thru before he was given his new body. I...
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marten_vanwier
Dec 8, 2007 1:58 am
Hi Lensman, ... Well as I mentioned earlier, I really don't have any serious knowledge on the subject, merely that of someone who goes casually through this. I...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 8, 2007 11:11 am
... I could rant about conspiracy theories in the real world, too. But KS is different. There's Brennan-monster manipulating Sol System for centuries, the...
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Tim Atkinson
betalyrae
Dec 11, 2007 10:14 am
Honestly, I can't think of any game application for A.I. that couldn't served equally well by a cyborg... which, again, is canonical; A.I. simply isn't ...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 11, 2007 7:00 pm
It belatedly occurs to me there *is* one canonical KS story with A.I.: In "The Soft Weapon", one of the functions of the Tnuctip spy weapon was what seemed to...
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David
prunesquallo...
Dec 12, 2007 6:07 pm
That's true - the weapon was presumably a one-off discovery (wasn't it the first/only Tnuctip stasis box to be found?) and self-destructed before anyone had...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 12, 2007 7:06 pm
... "Yes" to all the above. http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/t.htm/#tnu3 http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/t.htm/#tnu4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Clear ether! Lensman...
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marten_vanwier
Dec 19, 2007 11:04 pm
Hello people, Hi Lensman, ... I hope I didn't get on your nerves with that one. Just having the feeling sometimes that someone's designs are at work in the...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 20, 2007 4:05 am
Sample cyborg: ~~~~~~~~~~ ARTOO UNIT Manufactured by ILM Ltd, the "Artoo" unit, named after a movie robot, is an attempt to produce a robot capable of any...
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Lensman
lensman003
Dec 20, 2007 4:27 am
... I think it was in one of the MKW stories. I think from what someone else said it was in "The Children's Hour" or "The Asteroid Queen" ? Anyway, much as I...
