The simplest way to decide is to ask the resulting AGI itself to list all the people who it credits with having made the necessary breakthroughs that led to its existence. If a frequent poster is on the list, you win the bet. Other than that, some sort of consensus agreement by the AGI community at large that a breakthrough has been made and that **** should receive the credit.
--- On Tue, 9/25/12, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jim Bromer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [agi] Waning activity To: "AGI" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 10:14 AM My next question was: How do you characterize a "breakthrough"? Very few people, whether they are serious researchers or not, will make significant breakthroughs. The first problem with frequent posters to this group is that it takes time to write these messages and that time is not being spent actually working on a project. So frequent posters are probably not working on projects (or they are not working very hard) so it is unlikely that they will make breakthroughs. However, that does not mean that everyone who was a frequent poster will never work hard on a project. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Eric B. Ramsay <[email protected]> wrote: > > And in anticipation of your next question, a frequent contributor is > anyone who posts at least once per week. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/6625227-9501ad94 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
