Okay, so it's pretty clear that the AGI community needs a little more than an email-list and forum combination... That is if we want to be a little more than a side show. AGI needs a coherent case, a community center, and a unified data source to develop infrastructure to get money, support,etc. Every AGI website needs be turned into a human-power, machine-accelerated, collective knowledge system supporting an underlying unified data source/content repository backend. On the money side, this will allow stunning effectiveness in the use of randomized, controlled experiments able to isolate cause and effect in activity, microtargeting, etc . E.g. any time you received an email from the Obama campaign, it had been tested on 18 smaller groups and the response rates had been gauged. The campaign thought all the letters had a good chance of succeeding, but the worst-performing letters did only 15 -20 percent of what the best-performing emails could deliver. So if a good performer could do $2.5 million, a poor performer might only net $500,000. Does anyone know how much $$$ AGI research currently receives?
On the research side, we’ll be able to better see relationships between concepts. We’ll be able to merge all references to a concept onto a single topic and you will have access to all the information the systems knows about the concept in one place. And that’s just the beginning. Currently I'm working on a component http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/wiki/API_Rationale to plug into the content repository.... A tech architecture of what I'm working on would look something like this: a) web editing tool b) web framework c) content repository A content repository would manage content models and how to store them. This could be something like JCR, PHPCR, CouchDB or Midgard2. Then there is a web framework, responsible of matching URL requests to particular content and generating corresponding web pages. This could be Drupal, Flow3, Django, CodeIgniter, Midgard MVC, or something similar. And finally there is the web editing tool. The web editing tool provides an interface for managing contents of the web pages. This includes features like rich text editing, workflows and image handling. Thoughts? On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > A recurrent thread on this list is the desire to have a fusion of > forum and mailing list functionalities > > Fora are nice because they can be more organized than a mailing list > archive. Email lists are nice because they're better at nudging folks > to participate, by making messages intrusively land in their inbox... > > I poked around a little (because another group I'm involved with had > the same need, but more acutely), and it appears that the good old > Phorum software > > http://www.phorum.org > > provides a Web forum interface, with the possibility of > > -- receiving posts by email > > -- making posts by email > > A Phorum hosting provider, recommended on phorum.org, is > > http://www.ubiquityhosting.com > > Note that Phorum is highly customizable, and probably someone with > time to fiddle with it (not me) could set up an appropriate > configuration for this group > > So if anyone feels like it, you may want to try to set up an AGI > Phorum site.... If you can get it to work like an email list / forum > hybrid [posts organized online in categories, but posts received and > reply-able by email without any weirdness], then I'd advocate > switching the AGI list to that format... > > Thoughts? > > -- Ben G > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e > 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
