Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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Gary seems to have forgotten RBynum's further words that he quoted earlier, asserting that the full paragraph was what was relevant to the discussion:
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I am aware of genetic algorithms but where is the program equivalent of a single cell organism that can evolve to a more complex state? It should be possible to start with a simple form and evolve to the intelligent form. While life took billions of years computers should evolve in a few years. Course I could just be impatient, computers have only been around a few decades. What seems like a long time is incredibly fast in evolutionary terms.
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RBynum, the person asking for the information, seems to disagree with Gary's assessment of my contribution to the discussion.
Gary thinks that the results of experiments are "misleading wishful thinking", a complete inversion of the situation where I present evidence and Gary insists that "Let's pretend!" tells us something useful.
The rest seems to be Gary foaming at the mouth. Perhaps he is more than a little exercised. It's a wonder he has let me have the last word in that thread at the Kurzweil forums.
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