2008/10/10 YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Russell Wallace
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> I was trying to find a way so we can collaborate on one project, but
>>> people don't seem to like the virtual credit idea.
>>
>> No, no we don't :-)
>
> Why not?
As has been said previously, there have been AI projects in the past
which tried this credits or shares route which turned out to be very
unsuccessful. The problem with issuing credits is that, rightly or
wrongly, an expectation of short term financial reward is built up in
the minds of some contributors. When this expectation is not realised
things can become unpleasant.
There are additional problems with the credits idea. Under such a
system I suspect that as time goes on an increasing amount of effort
will be needlessly expended in arguments over who gets how many
credits and how such credits are fairly approtioned ("I did more work
on this than you did", "you didn't count the number of hours I spent
researching rather than code writing", etc), detracting from the work
which needs to be done.
There is no incompatibility with the idea of developing software under
a FOSS licence, and then making money out of systems or services
peripheral to that. Since the construction of AGIs is likely to be a
long term effort the open source methodology seems appropriate, and
under the current economic circumstances paying programmers to work on
a project whose culmination may be years ahead in the future will
appear increasingly unattractive.
Incidentally, once a true AGI is created the current software
development paradigm becomes obsolete anyway.
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agi
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