When I reported for duty as a student in the Nuclear Training Directorate at Sandia Base, New Mexico, I was sent to see the neurologist, which I knew was just a fancy term for "the shrink'. Having seen my shrink father every day while growing up, I knew what to expect. Sure enough, one of the initial questions was, "Do you know why you were sent here?"

"It may be because I kept falling asleep in class during the electronics phase at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. I graduated as the top student in the class, but I studied so hard outside of class that I kept falling asleep during the class." So Dr. Strangelove nods wisely and asks if there are any other things I would like to talk about.

"Well, when I was a teenager, I did not get along very well with my father," I responded in sharpshooting mode, that is, trying to appear as normal as possible.

The U.S. Army had tried to send me to Vietnam after Basic Combat Training at Fort Lewis, when they read off my name among the names of seventeen soldiers ordered to report for infantry training. One big husky guy broke out in tears, but I raised my hand and said, "I signed up for a school." I had chosen "Nuclear Weapons Electronics Specialist" to keep me out of Vietnam and to help me in my lifelong AI project in artificial intelligence -- which is the subject of today's report to the AFC community.

Yesterday in the "scifi" subReddit I posted

[SPS] RoadMap to Artificial General Intelligence

for Self-Promotion Saturday. For several weeks I had been self-promoting my own AI webpages that had a borrowed cartoon at the top, because Reddit makes a thumbnail image of the top graphic from submitted link. All I had to do was update

https://ai.neocities.org/RoadMap.html

with a link to my current campaign of sending Mentifex Autograph Postcards. But I discovered that the campaign itself was one new stage in the Roadmap! So I inserted the follow new stage.

[2022-05-23] Mentifex Autograph Authentication -- start of hundreds of postcards mailed out to autograph collectors to force the issue of whether the Mentifex Theory of Mind for AI and the implementing software programs are a real instance of AI being solved and launching the Technological Singularity.

As of yesterday I have mailed out two hundred twenty (220) of the postcards, mainly to used bookstores around the USA. It has occurred to me that, if Mentifex AI finally gets taken seriously and initiates a Singularity, a wannabe author might write either an interesting book or even a New Yorker article about to nutcase who postcarded his way to a Singularity.

https://www.mail-archive.com/agi@agi.topicbox.com/msg08960.html