slash-dot? Hmm, I wonder if the slashdot.org domain name is available.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Gaurav Gautam <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> How about simply calling it root? Even better just /. Read it as root but
> always
> write it out as /.
>
> The message being: CogPrime is where real AI begins.
>
> Then if you make an agent which attains GI, you could name it ~.
>
> This also decouples the names from any language, so it addresses that
> person's
> concern with internationalization who suggested Nabu.
>
> And in the event that CogPrime becomes the defacto standard for creating
> AGI's
> and gains the status that E=mc2 has in popular culture, just imagine how
> much
> artistic freedom you will be giving to people. A '/' can be stylized in
> myriad ways.
> A word will never be able to compete with that. Maybe Slash will write
> some theme
> music for it?
>
> Also, if its a defacto standard, doesn't '/' make a lot of sense? Its the
> starting point...
> by definition.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Gaurav Gautam
>
> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 4:04:19 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Nuzzolilo wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:27 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm not an active coder in the development of opencog, but I'm opposed
>> to a
>> > namechange.
>> >
>> > when I started to learn about opencog I found that the various naming
>> and
>> > renaming was a frustrating
>> > source of confusion for a beginner. This AGI project of yours was first
>> > known as Novamente, then opencog prime, then opencog.... It took me
>> ardeous
>> > efforts to figuer out
>> > that it was essentially all the same.
>> >
>>
>> If by "AGI project" you mean the encompassing framework now known as
>> "OpenCog": This was never called "OpenCogPrime", it went straight from
>> Novamente to OpenCog.  There are two different systems.  OpenCog is a
>> generalized framework intended for experimentation with differing AGI
>> designs, of which CogPrime happens to be the design that the team here
>> is using.  The implementation of CogPrime within OpenCog is called
>> OpenCogPrime.
>>
>> It can be clumsy to parse through the various names listed above and
>> that's the rationale behind the name change for OpenCogPrime.  OpenCog
>> itself is not changing as far as I am aware (and I like that name as
>> is).
>>
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