META: ad hominem attacks WAS Re: [agi] virtual credits again
Trent, A comment in my role as list administrator: Let's keep the discussion on the level of ideas not people, please. No ad hominem attacks such as You're a gas bag, etc. thanks ben g On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Trent Waddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:04 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time Ben's argument was that the virtual credit method confuses for-profit and charity emotions in people. At that time it sounded convincing, but after some thinking I realized that it is actually completely untrue. Don't forget my argument.. You're a gas bag and don't know what you're talking about.. so you'll never make any money and your virtual credits (hint: credit is already virtual) are just worthless stupidity. Trent --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: META: ad hominem attacks WAS Re: [agi] virtual credits again
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trent, A comment in my role as list administrator: Let's keep the discussion on the level of ideas not people, please. No ad hominem attacks such as You're a gas bag, etc. If he's free to talk about virtual credits I should be free to talk about how stupid his virtual credit idea is and, by extension, he is. If it was a passing idea he'd had which, after receiving everyone's feedback on the matter, he decided was not a good idea.. that'd be fine, if not completely off-topic for this list, but he's brought up the subject on this list and the opencog list and on irc a good half dozen times now. It's stupid.. and he isn't getting the message. Trent --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: META: ad hominem attacks WAS Re: [agi] virtual credits again
If he's free to talk about virtual credits I should be free to talk about how stupid his virtual credit idea Yes is and, by extension, he is. No ... Look, I am not any kind of expert on list management or social tact, I'm just applying extremely basic rules of human politeness here In fact I know YKY and he is actually *not* an idiot, he's a very bright guy, although he has plenty of ideas I disagree with. I think the virtual-credits thing probably won't work, but I'm not certain of it ... and I do note that it seemed obvious to many people, in advance, that the open-source methodology couldn't work at all (but then it did) Discussion of business and organizational models for AGI projects is sufficiently on-topic for this list, given how broadly the theme of the list is currently being interpreted... -- Ben G List moderator --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
