I'll respond to other points tomorrow or the day after (am currently on a biz trip through Asia), but just one thing now... You say
> With NO money, none of either of our efforts stands a chance. With some > realistic investment money, scanning would at minimum be cheap insurance > that you will be able to overcome ALL of your future problems. but I'm not sure this is true. Linux got a long way with no money, and eventually its freeware success brought investment from various sources. This is part of the inspiration underlying OpenCog .... Given a viable AGI design (which I have) and an initial, partial codebase (which we have, via opencog), and a population of enthusiastic and qualified OSS contributors, there's no reason that $$ is needed, though it can certainly accelerate things. The big challenge becomes keeping things going on the right course, in the relevant senses of "right" ben g ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
