Please, if you're going to argue something --
please take the time to argue it and don't pretend that you can't
magically
solve it all with your "guesses" (I mean, intuition).
time for mailing list posts is scarce for me these days, so sometimes I
post
a conclusion w/out the supporting arguments ... but the arguments are
usually
already there in prior publications ;-)
Yeah, I'll certainly grant you that. The unfortunate problem is that people
coming in late don't see the prior arguments and then engage in behavior
that they believe is similar but entirely without the scientific rigor that
you normally follow but don't always visibly display.
Also, on the other hand, for certain classes of issues where you are less of
an expert -- like in large-scale systems architecture (both software and
conceptual), a number of your previously posted arguments are *I believe* at
best questionable if not outright wrong. The fact that these assumptions
aren't open for inspection at a convenient location is problematical if many
other things are built on top of them and then they turn out to be wrong.
We need to start to gather the best of these assumptions and debates in one
place (probably a wiki) because long-term e-mail looping is not efficient.
I've had this as a low priority thought for the AGI-Network but I think that
I'm going to escalate it's priority substantially and see if I can't come up
with a conceptual design for such a wiki (with scaled and isolated
privileges) over the next couple of weeks.
One of the things that I've been tempted to argue for a while is an entirely
alternate underlying software architecture for OpenCog -- people can then
develop in the architecture that is most convenient and then we could have
people cross-port between the two. I strongly contend that the current
architecture does not take advantage of a large part of the newest advances
and infrastructures of the past half-decade. I think that if people saw
what could be done with far less time and code utilizing already existing
functionality and better tools that C++ would be a dead issue.
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