From mikevdg@gulik.co.nz Thu Nov 11 20:36:26 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:36:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from genamics.blastula.net ([205.214.85.184]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1CSTAT-0003QR-32 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:36:13 -0800 Received: from [202.180.78.32] (helo=gulik.co.nz) by genamics.blastula.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CSTAQ-0006RO-Oj for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:36:11 +1300 Message-ID: <41943DF5.9010803@gulik.co.nz> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:37:09 +1300 From: Michael van der Gulik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031119 Debian/1.4.0.x.1-20 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Been a long time guys! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - genamics.blastula.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lojban.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gulik.co.nz X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-archive-position: 8981 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mikevdg@gulik.co.nz Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list (I feel bad not being able to reply in lojban yet...) thinkit41 wrote: >Hi, it's thinkit, the "hexadecimal" guy. Well lots has changed here. >I'm not all about hexadecimal anymore by far. I've been thinking >much more about the singularity and transhumanism. Lojban has a real >place here. If one somehow makes a computer sentient, what language >would the computer use? Lojban is a great start. Vocalization would >be optional, so some machine code compiled lojban would be the >machine's native language. > > Lojban is good for that sort of thing. That's why I've got it on my TODO list of things to learn. I was thinking that one could make a pretty effective AI by having logical rules which are searched, sorted and processed by some fancy algorithm, such as an evolutionary algorithm. However, I'd only use Lojban for entering those rules and discussing things with the computer rather than for storing information internally. I've seen somebody who made a lojban -> prolog translater. It was only partial, but it wasn't altogether than long or complicated. I think that's a baby step in that direction. I can't remember where I found it (files section of the lojban wiki?). Michael.