[2018-10-25 Thurs@SB/S] [...] When I logged in to Neocities this morning, there had been about 450 page-views in the last twenty-four hours, when I consider even three hundred page-views to be exceptional. Of course, I had done a lot of posting on Reddit last night.
I keep coming back to the idea of the straight-up vertical-cliff enormity of it all if my Lebenswerk becomes widely acknowledged as the pivotal AI breakthrough that everybody has been waiting for. If people conclude that my AI is truly thinking, then they thereby automatically acknowledge the breakthrough.
The invention of AI outranks a lot of other inventions -- the airplane, the atomic bomb, the LASER. There are thousands of people trying to create an AI mind, but without a theory of mind such as I have, they do not know what to code.
[(Красавица) of ... just stopped by and talked with me.]
However, in the so-called "AI community", I get the feeling that there is enormous resistance to any idea of letting my life-work be acknowledged as the pivotal AI breakthrough. Some outfits might try to incorporate my accomplishments in their own AI designs and just brush past me, like Sarnoff did with the true inventor of television, but such a denouement is actually a positive outcome for me because then I may escape the blame of creating AI. [...]
I don't mind being regarded as a weirdo on the Internet, because I think a lot of Netizens enjoy following my activities. It's when I threaten to upset the entire AI apple-cart that people get upset, as if they don't want some amateur to win the day.
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