Right. Banning is unnecessary. No one has expressed this specific case better to my knowledge than Eliezer Yudkowsky did 10 year ago in his post “Tolerate Tolerance” on the LessWrong site. Link provided for your amusement: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JKxxFseBWz8SHkTgt/tolerate-tolerance
> On Feb 10, 2019, at 1:38 AM, justcamel <[email protected]> wrote: > > No need to ban ... just reject postings matching /mentifex/i and > /ghost\d+\.pl/i and voila ... maybe "A.T. Murray" decides to interact with > the list in productive ways. > > Those 15k lines seem to be very important to him and it's probably his way of > fleeing from the insanity of our contemporary society but please don't market > it as AGI nor intelligent. > > Many people struggle and come up with weird ways of keeping them distracted > or busy but they don't create thousands of offtopic/spam Reddit or > mailinglist postings. > > I don't know ... maybe it keeps him going and we should just deal with it ... > but it's not like he is getting any positive feedback? This is just so weird > ... in a weird way ... > >> On 10/02/2019 03:32, Alan Grimes wrote: >> >> Seconded! BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN!!!!! >> >> I'm usuaually on the wrong side of calls to ban, and this is probably >> the second or even first one I've issued myself. >> >> We need a quality AGI list, any list he is allowed to be on will quickly >> deteriorate beacuse he's radiactive (you know what I mean). >> >> We don't have time for some miracle to happen and him to get cured. The >> fact is that he's insane and won't get better with any science known >> today and must therefore be banned. >> >> >> justcamel wrote: >>> please enable a filter to spare this list from this nonstop bullshit ... >>> >>>> On 10/02/2019 00:43, A.T. Murray wrote: >>>> The curious AGI-esque results in thinking and in conversation are very >>>> new and were achieved not yet in the JavaScript FirstWorkingAGI.html but >>>> rather _as_described_in_the_AGI_post in the ghost.292.pl >>>> <http://ghost.292.pl> AI in Perl and >>>> then more elaborately _as_described_in_the_AGI_post in the >>>> ghost294.pl <http://ghost294.pl> AI in >>>> Perl. Achievements in one of the three AI Minds eventually get ported >>>> into >>>> the other ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T455bc32c8a6722e4-M99155d51689fd9208de3f65f Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
