To put it poetically, a "living cloth of material"... Mindmakers is aiming at this, at least.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:43 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 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> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/7190161-766c6f07> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Abram Demski http://lo-tho.blogspot.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
