Yeah... following the build instructions for OpenCog on Ubuntu works fairly robustly. On other Linux versions it may require some fiddling. If you really care you can install an Ubuntu VM, right?
But this sort of thing is pretty common among open source Linux software, it's not really to do with specific novel OpenCog code but rather with various external dependencies that the code has, because of relying on various existing code libraries... About nested realities, ContextLink and HypotheticalLink would be the mechanisms used in PLN semantics for this sort of representation.... The current PLN implementation does not support these robustly yet, but the logic is worked out on paper... -- Ben On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Anastasios Tsiolakidis < [email protected]> wrote: > probably the wrong list to rant about OpenCog, unless you were edited off > the OC group like my rants usually are :) Anyway, they could start with > better Ubuntu support, right now it is a bit random building and running > the stuff, depending on which minor version of a package or another you > have. I can't see the purpose of building general intelligence with gcc > version 3.5.2.4 *only*, just like I don't see why general intelligence > should be build with "advanced" use of a bewildering mix of software tools. > I am all for integration across toolkits and systems but they should be at > least half-understandable and half portable. > > Meanwhile, it would help me immensely if someone could explain how nested > realities are represented in OpenCog, for example me talking about Harry > Potter's first encounter with magical/invisible train platforms. > Disclaimer: I have long ago asserted that it is such spontaneous > hierarchies of thought, speech and reality that lie at the core of our > cognitive abilities, and we enter such minute and uncharted regions of > problem space that break purely statistical tools. > > AT > > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Azn A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> :( >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I finally came across the reported "linux install instructions". What I >>> found was that they were heavily ubuntu specific and couldn't reasonably >>> be carried out on any non-debian based distro. =| >>> >>> The thing really seemed to hump Ubuntu and seemed to be much more >>> intimate with the system as a whole than any piece of software should be. >>> >>> If you honestly want to support linux, just be compatible with the >>> goddamned standard! >>> >>> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml >>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ >>> >>> and adhere to all conventions with respect to package design and best >>> practices!!! =| >>> >>> GAH!!!! >>> >>> -- >>> IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. >>> >>> Powers are not rights. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> AGI >>> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >>> RSS Feed: >>> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e >>> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >>> >>> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >>> >> >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/14050631-7d925eb1> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
