Re: [agi] OpenCogPrime for Dummies [NOT]

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, Perhaps if you just through together a quick and dirty Wiki page and asked others to clean it up, then it might evolve into what the world needs here. Also, it would organize discussions and disputes, e.g. by allowing people to put questions into the explanation, to then be answered through

Re: [agi] OpenCogPrime for Dummies [NOT]

2008-10-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hmmm ... I doubt that a quick and dirty nontechnical wiki page on opencogprime would help anyone much ... a decent nontechnical exposition of the ideas would require a lot of legwork in terms of presenting background material and clarifying preliminary terms and ideas ... without that, discussion

Re: [agi] OpenCogPrime for Dummies [NOT]

2008-10-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ben, I have been eagerly awaiting such a document. However, the Grand Technical Guru (i.e. you) is usually NOT the person to write such a thing. Usually, an associate, user, author, or some such person who is on the user

Re: [agi] OpenCogPrime for Dummies [NOT]

2008-10-01 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, I have been eagerly awaiting such a document. However, the Grand Technical Guru (i.e. you) is usually NOT the person to write such a thing. Usually, an associate, user, author, or some such person who is on the user side rather than on the implementing side. Separated from the lock washers

[agi] OpenCogPrime for Dummies [NOT]

2008-09-30 Thread Ben Goertzel
Without trying to be pejorative at all, it seems that the only real way for me to address a lot of the questions being asked here would be to write a sort of OpenCogPrime for Dummies [ ... note that the ... for Dummies books are not actually written for dumb people, they just assume little