RE: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-15 Thread John G. Rose
Whirl programming language autonomically while astral projecting back into the primordial ooze!" Reply: "Ahh dude. seek help!" John From: Steve Richfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:45 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Posting Strategies

Re: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-15 Thread Steve Richfield
John, You are absolutely right. People should simply delete the parts of postings that they think have no value, leaving just the tiny grain(s) of absolute brilliance, and add whatever they can to them for everyone's benefit. One man's obtuse utterings are sometimes another man's grains of absolut

RE: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-15 Thread John G. Rose
I kind of disagree with this attitude, too conformist and over assuming. I've seen too many flaked out freakazoids have tiny grains of absolute brilliance sprinkled throughout their time wasting mass of obtruse utterings. Yeah you can't waste too much time and have to gain something with the in

Re: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-14 Thread Ben Goertzel
These things of course require a balance. In many academic or corporate fora, radical innovation is frowned upon so profoundly (in spite of sometimes being praised and desired, on the surface, but in a confused and not fully sincere way), that it's continually necessary to remind people of the nee

Re: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-14 Thread A. T. Murray
Bob Mottram writes: > > Good advice. There are of course sometimes > people who are ahead of the field, Like Ben Goertzel (glad to send him a referral recently from South Africa on the OpenCog list :-) > but in conversation you'll usually find that the > genuine inovators have a deep - border

Re: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Mottram
Good advice. There are of course sometimes people who are ahead of the field, but in conversation you'll usually find that the genuine inovators have a deep - bordering on obsessive - knowledge of the field that they're working in and are willing to demonstrate/test their claims to anyone even rem