On Oct 21, 2007, at 6:47 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wote: > >On Oct 21, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote: >> It took me at least five years of struggle to get to the point >> where I could start to have the confidence to call a spade a spade > > >It still looks like a shovel to me. > In what looks not like a spade or a shovel but like CENSORSHIP -- my message below was in response to
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07943.html Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:18:27 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. T. Murray) Subject: Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] J. Andrew Rogers wrote: > [...] > There is enough VC money for everyone with > a decent business model. Honestly, most AGI > is not a decent business model. Neither is philosophy, but philosophy prevails. > Otherwise Mentifex would be smothered in cash. > It might even keep him quiet. I don't need cash beyond the exigencies of daily living. Right now I'm going to respond off the top of my head with the rather promising latest news from Mentifex AI. ATM/Mentifex here fleshed out the initial Wikipedia stub of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_of_Mind several years ago. M*ntifex-bashers came in and rewrote it, but traces of my text linger still. (And I have personally met Jerry Fodor years ago.) Then for several years I kept the Modularity link on dozens of mind-module webpages as a point of departure into Wikipedia. Hordes of Wikpedia editors worked over and over again on the Modularity-of-mind article. At the start of September 2007 I decided to flesh out the Wikipedia connection for each Mentifex AI mind-module webpage by expanding from that single link to a "cluster" of all discernible Wikipedia articles closely related to the topic of my roughly forty mind-modules. http://www.advogato.org/article/946.html is where on 11 September 2007 I posted "Wikipedia-based Open-Source Artificial Intelligence" -- because I realized that I could "piggyback" my independent-scholar AI project on Wikipedia as a growing source of explanatory AI material. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/aima-talk/message/784 is where I suggested (and I quote a few lines): > It would be nice if future editions of the AIMA textbook > were to include some treatment of the various independent > AI projects that are out there (on the fringe?) nowadays. Thereupon another discussant provided a link to http://textbookrevolution.org -- a site which immediately accepted my submission of http://mind.sourceforge.net/aisteps.html as "Artificial Intelligence Wikipedia-based Free Textbook." So fortuitously, serendipitously the whole direction of Mentifex AI changed direction in mere weeks. http://AIMind-I.com is an example not only of a separate AI spawned from Mentifex AI, but also of why I do not need massive inputs of VC cash, when other AI devotees just as dedicated as I am will launch their own mentifex-class AI Mind project using their own personal resources. Now hear this. The Site Meter logs show that interested parties from all over the world are looking at the Mentifex offer of a free AI textbook based on AI4U + updates + Wikipedia. Mentifex AI is in it for the long haul now. Not only here in America, but especially overseas and in "third world" countries there are AI-hungry programmers with unlimited AGI ambition but scant cash. They are the beneficiaries of Mentifex AI. Arthur -- http://mentifex.virtualentity.com ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=56273452-4f8ff3
