When commenting on a lot of different items in a posting, in-line responses
make more sense and using ALL-CAPS in one accepted way of doing it in an email
client/platform neutral manner. I for one do it often when responding to
individual emails so I don't mind at all. I do *not* associate it with shouting
in such a context - especially not in the light of the extremely high-quality
contributions made by Edward on this list (I, for one, think that he has
elevated the level of discussion here greatly and I have archived more of his
postings than anyone else's). I do agree that small-caps is easier on the eye.
However, Durk, if one wishes to comment on posting etiquette, I thought one
other rule was to quote as little of the previous post as necessary to make
one's point ... some members may still have bandwidth issues ;-) (just kidding!)
And, for the record, after reading AI literature for well over 20 years and
having done a lot of thinking, the AGI architecture I'm busy working on is
strongly founded on insights (principles, axioms, hypotheses and assumptions:)
many of which are remarkably similar to Edward's views (including those of the
value of past AI research projects, the role of semantic networks and the
possibility of symbolic grounding) though I (obviously) differ on some other
aspects (e.g. complexity :). I hope to invite him and some others to comment on
my prototype end-2008 (and possibly contribute thereafter :)
^.^
Jean-Paul
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>>> "Kingma, D.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/10/12 10:57 >>>
Dear Edward, may I ask why you regularly choose to type in all-caps? Do you
have a broken keyboard? Otherwise, please restrain from doing so since (1) many
people associate it with shouting and (2) small-caps is easier to read...
Kind regards,
Durk Kingma
On 10/12/07, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is in response to Mike Tintner's 10/11/2007 7:53 PM post. My response is
in all-caps.
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