Re: AI vs. uploading

Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:17:10 +0100

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> I think you are perhaps overgeneralizing just a tad. In fact, you've
> just insulted... let's see, Douglas Hofstadter, Douglas Lenat, and...
> well, actually that exhausts my store of people I'd challenge you to a
> duel over, but I'm still a touch offended.

I would imagine from reading Hofstadter that he is fully capable of being just as arrogant as Marvin Minsky. As for Lenat, he couldn't be insulted enough. Cyc indeed.

BM