Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-13 Thread William Pearson
On 13/06/06, sanjay padmane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the suggestion of creating a wiki, we already have it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence I wouldn't want to pollute the wiki proper with our unverified claims. , as you know, and its exposure is much

Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:05:56AM +0530, sanjay padmane wrote: Even though only a few have reacted to my (somewhat threatening ;-) ) proposal to discontinue this list, it seems that people are comfortable with I would call it a troll. it, anyhow... You seem to be new to the Internet. I

Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-13 Thread William Pearson
On 13/06/06, Yan King Yin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will, I've been thinking of hosting a wiki for some time, but not sure if we have reached critical mass here. Possibly not. I may just collate my own list of questions and answers until the time does come. When we get down to the details,

Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-13 Thread sanjay padmane
On 6/13/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not meant so much to replace our discussions on list but todisplay the various questions people have asked and the variousanswers to them in a persistant and easy to use fashion. Will Well I'm not sure if this requires group effort. If

Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Sanjay, On 6/12/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/06/06, sanjay padmane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel you should discontinue the list. That will force people to post there. I'm not using the forum only because no one else is using it (or very few), and everyone is

Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-12 Thread Yan King Yin
If we want to increase content and get more people interested I think the best thing to devote our time and effort to is a wiki rather than a forum. Threads have little chance of staying on topic and finding things in them as they meander around becomes nightmarish. As we can't present a

Re: Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-12 Thread sanjay padmane
Even though only a few have reacted to my (somewhat threatening ;-) ) proposal to discontinue this list, it seems that people are comfortable with it, anyhow...Someone can experiment with automated posting of all forum messages to the list, as and when they are created. Speaking of high quality,