4. *Accept members as broadly as possible*. A typical AGI company usually interviews potential candidates, sign NDAs, and then see if their skills align with the company's project. After such a screening many candidates with good ideas may not be hired. The consortium is to remedy this by letting members with disparate views exchange their ideas freely, with the safety of being credited for them.
I will just note that this would make a project very difficult to manage. In Novamente we have mixed feelings about newbie volunteers because 1) 90% of them don't work out for one reason or another [often they didn't have as much time as they thought they had, didn't have enough background, didn't like the AI philosophy, etc.] 2) dealing with each one, once they get beyond the level of just reading docs, takes time Of course some of our best contributors were newbies once [rather than being co-founders], but I'm just pointing out that accepting arbitrary new people into a project can become a very major drag, if you provide any kind of support for those new people to come up to speed. That is because AI is difficult, and unlike something like Linux is not based mainly on textbook information that anyone can look up... -- Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
