Hi Ben and Peter Voss, I understand that transitioning to a Web 2.0-style will not be easy for well-established projects. But sometimes a company needs to cannibalize its own past...
Due to the fewer number of employees, conventional companies can only explore a small subspace of the huge AGI design space, like a local search algorithm. They often cannot afford to let dissidents to branch out on their own. Also, they may use a "waterfall" development model where the design progressively gets more committed, and going back to explore earlier design spaces is rare. The consortium avoid these problems and is a superior R&D environment, especially for large-scale projects like AGI and when the dominant AGI design has not emerged yet. Nevertheless, it's understandable that well-established projects don't want to partake in Web 2.0 because they can expect that a lot of prior work would be invalidated in the more open and rapidly evolving environment. So we're in an awkward situation... I suggest that the consortium can give special compensation for well-established / pioneer AGI projects to join (I can only think of 3: Cyc, Novamente, A2I2), though that has to be the decision of all members. I know this is very hard for founders to do, maybe you can suggest some conditions under which you'd be more likely to join? YKY ----- 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
