[lojban] Re: Transhumanism

[Matt Arnold <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Ryan,
I have brought this up with lojbanists privately in the past. Whether or not Lojban has an effect on the creation of AI, its best chance for a connection to Transhumanism is by augmenting _you and me_.
-Matt


lojban-list@lojban.org wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>A smarter-than-human AI would have little need for any linear spoken
>language, except for the purpose of communicating with humans.
>
>On the "Research Papers" page at www.goertzel.org, near the top, you'll find
>a couple speculative papers I wrote regarding how Lojban could be useful for
>AI.  So far I have not succeeded in raising funding for implementing these
>ideas, unfortunately.  All in good time, though....
>
>In the language I use in those papers, future AI's might choose to (or be
>engineered to) communicate in something loosely equivalent to what I call
>"normalized Lojban," in which sentences can be represented as mathematical
>tree objects.  AI's would have no need for Lojban's "syntactic sugar", which
>serves the purpose of creating convenient linearizations of the mathematical
>trees that represent Lojban semantics.
>
>-- Ben
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [lojban] Transhumanism
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>> Are there any others who see the link to transhumanism? A
>> smarter-than-human
>> intelligence would learn lojban quickly, and see its benefits
>> immediately.
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