It looks like I need to update the database connection information: http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/
If others are interested, I will try to find time for that. I think as useful as any page would be "Bio pages" of members, which state where people fall on a number of questions, and we can trend that overtime to see if anyone's mind's change. Jason On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > Good luck with that! We tried a wiki project a few years ago to do > exactly what you propose, but it died of neglect. I'm not sure if the > results of that effort is still around, even. > > Cheers > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:18:37AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > All, > > > > There are obviously a lot of very intelligent members here who are well > > read in modern science. I think everyone would agree with this. > > > > However the usual MO of group members (true of most groups) is simply to > > argue for their own theories and to criticize those of others, and as a > > result no one changes their views and no significant progress is made. > > > > Let me humbly suggest that we can do better than that... > > > > What would really be nice if we could work together cooperatively, in the > > way that actual working science teams do, to build consenses towards > areas > > of agreement. > > > > The way this works is that first we see what we can agree upon, state > that > > clearly in a way all can agree upon, and take that as the basis for > further > > progress. > > > > Second work to clearly define areas of disagreement and actively analyze > > and clarify them to prune the disagreements to the minimum possible. > > > > Third, devise mutually acceptable tests to resolve these disagreements. > > > > Fourth, run the tests and add the results to the areas of agreement. > > > > Fifth, use this process iteratively to progress to the maximum areas of > > agreement possible towards agreement on the most comprehensive theory > > possible. > > > > Now obviously this is probably more doable among small groups that > already > > have significant areas of agreement to start with. But as each of these > > groups make progress defining what they do agree upon they can then join > to > > debate the areas of agreement and disagreement between groups and how > best > > to resolve those differences. > > > > For example I was pleased to learn that Stephen and I agree that block > time > > is BS, even though Stephen doesn't seem to actively want to argue that > > here. So e.g. Stephen and I could try to clearly define our area of > > agreement here and when we clarify that we could then debate it with the > > supporters of block time and the UDA who believe differently once they > > clarify their areas of agreement. > > > > My basic point is that instead of just forever arguing our differences, > it > > would be great to actively work on defining and clarifying the theories > > that we could agree upon. It seems to me that would be a truly worthwhile > > mutual endeavor that would progress all our understandings. > > > > How about it guys? Anyone interested in working on this? > > > > Edgar > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
