Even if YKY was to succeed in coming up with a new hybrid organizational structure, which could likely happen as there are definitely opportunities for innovation judging by existing structures, there still needs to be the traditional open source project that everybody and his brother(or sister) can go in and get a piece of without any strings attached. You go online, search for AGI, find it on SourceForge or similar, download and compile. If you like it enough you start working on it submitting changes and code improvements. With AGI there should be mechanisms i.e. forums and email lists, like this one, where non-developers contribute and "work" on it since a large amount of priceless input comes from learned individuals in various related fields. There does have to be a couple movers and shakers to get the thing started, just building up a skeleton and framework is a huge amount of work.
John From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're not proposing a better scheme for collaboration, and you criticize my scheme in a non-constructive way, then effectively you're just saying that you're not interested in collaborating at all. And that's kind of sad, given that we're still so far from AGI. YKY, I think there are two "better schemes" for collaboration than the one you've proposed: -- the traditional for-profit company with equity and options based compensation determined by a committee of trusted individuals -- the open-source project and various combinations thereof... ----- 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
