I like the emails because they're easier on my phone. I don't always have a computer handy, and trying to type into a teeny text box on a webpage on my phone would probably be more pain than it's worth. I do like the idea of a forum better when I'm not restricted to my phone, though.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Todor Arnaudov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > Email lists are nice because they're better at nudging folks > >to participate, by making messages intrusively land in their inbox... > > IMO the email-list convenience is a made-up excuse for bad habits and > laziness - some may claim that they use dial-up Internet via 33.6 ISA modem > with IE3 on a 486DX 133, that's why they prefer emails. > > IMHO any forum is more convenient, especially for reading and for > following particular fields of interests, and also it's not true > that receiving all the messages in your mailbox is strictly desirable - > sometimes there's a lot of spam, I myself unsubscribed a long time ago. > > Every forum has subscriptions for notifications on the email for answers > (I guess also new topics) (e.g. PhpBB), one can follow a thread or a > category etc. (and receive notifications only for what he cares about). > > ... > As of sending through the email - what's that harder about a forum? Login > once, keep logged in if lazy, one or a few clicks on a topic, "reply" etc. > Put an icon of the forum in your start-page of the browser, make the page > to start with your browser (or one of your browsers) - and you won't forget > to check it, if that's the issue. > > Besides, a lot of the communication here is like in a chat - a few lines, > the ones who make more efforts are often ignored or answered in a few lines > - there are probably supposed to be crazy to write that much. > > *IMHO the "inconvenience" of a forum is just an excuse for a very low > commitment or interest.* > > You know, I've created an AGI forum with carefully designed categories*more > than an year ago > *, there are even multi-language categories and categories for different > level of expertise. I have mentioned it here several times - the > interest is close to 0, a few fellow Bulgarian AGI-guys joined, I've used > it a few times, but no body else uses it actively and I stopped posting > there, too. > > *Scalable Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Forum - Self-Improving > General Intelligence (SIGI) > > * > *-- Independent Scalable AGI and SIGI Society Forum - Created & > Maintained by Todor Arnaudov (Alpha Version) > > * > http://research.twenkid.com/forum/index.php > > There are neither people, nor interest, and it's about lack of commitment > and no real interest in AGI, people care for their boring university > courses, jobs etc. > > Otherwise if it's technically hard for the AGI guys to use a forum (and > that's their excuse for not using it) - well, perhaps that's the reason > why many of them still believe intelligence is a mystery. > > ** Todor "Tosh" Arnaudov ** > * > ... Twenkid Research:* http://research.twenkid.com > > ... *Self-Improving General Intelligence Conference*: > http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-sigi-2012-1-first-sigi-agi.html > > ... * Todor Arnaudov's Researches Blog**: * > http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com > > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-bcb45fb4> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <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
