Yes it does, AGI will make all those problems history. But don't worry, as Nietzsche once said: "Truth is created by those who have the power to enforce their point of view."
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Micah Blumberg <[email protected]> wrote: > "AGI reseach = cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, > Nanotechnology and clean energy reseach all in one." > > No it doesn't. > 1. Paying for research does not equal paying for the delivery of a product. > 2. A message isn't obvious until you campaign successfully to make that > message obvious. > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Azn A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 back-end. In other words, a services >> architecture that allows for all of our apps to connect together and share >> one common data store. >> >> On the money side, this will allow stunning effectiveness in the use of >> randomized, controlled experiments able to isolate cause and effect in >> public activities, microtargeting: algorithms weighing as many as 1,000 >> different personal variables to generate probabilities predicting whether >> individual citizens will donate, etc. For example, the Obama campaign used >> experimental methods to test nearly all of its online communications, >> randomizing the design of Web pages, the timing of text message blasts, and >> the language of email solicitations to measure their relative >> effectiveness. 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 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? >> >> By building our web frameworks with a shared content repository in mind, >> we'll unified what know on a scale that's never been seen before. The >> resulting platform will give us tools that help "force-multiply" >> volunteers, researchers, etc, giving them organizational and communication >> tools that will make them even more effective. On the research side, we’ll >> be able to better see relationships between concepts, provide information >> in different languages, use information to automatically create overviews >> of data (like lists or charts), or answer language-based questions that can >> hardly be answered automatically today. 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. On the technology side, the AGI portal will be >> is a true “Web of Data” platform that will publish and interlink web data >> according to the “Linked Data” principles developed by Tim Berners-Lee >> (inventor of the World Wide Web). The resulting structured data will allow >> not only humans to understand what's happening, but computers too. Which is >> truly exciting. >> >> 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: 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 i.e. http://aloha-editor.org/ >> >> b) 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. >> >> 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. >> >> >> Seriously, AGI reseach = cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer’s >> disease, Nanotechnology and clean energy reseach all in one. 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