Well I wanted to say "/" which is the symbol for root in linux. But if /. 
sounds better then thats 
fine too. 

On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 12:10:59 AM UTC+5:30, linas wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <javascript:>> 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). 
>>>
>> -- 
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
>> "opencog" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
>> email to [email protected] <javascript:>.
>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 
>> <javascript:>.
>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog.
>> To view this discussion on the web visit 
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/c635886b-aabd-4736-b2fe-84555d4f16f7%40googlegroups.com
>>  
>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/c635886b-aabd-4736-b2fe-84555d4f16f7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>
>> .
>>
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"opencog" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/opencog.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/79a86312-7f9a-4e79-9768-13e3520faafe%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to