The Anti-Wiki
I was looking at Anole (part of Dynadex).
Then it hit me: here are some components of a wiki:
- render the page
- determine page existence
- allow page creation
- allow page editing
Then I realized: rendering has two parts: format rendering and link rendering.
Then I realized that Anole could be another way of handling the link rendering.
Then I realized that the other three parts were simple (unless you wanted wysiwyg support).
Then I realized that format rendering was always problematic because few standard formats have yet established themselves.
Then I realized that this could be handled by plug-ins.
Then I realized that we don’t need “a wiki” - we can get by with a bunch of loosely connected tools to make a wiki.
And then I realized that with flexible meta-data support through more loosely connected tools, pages could be wiki-pages or blog-posts (with something like Komodo and Gecko), or anything else.
And then I realized that I’d better stop or else I’d be imagining yet another content management system.
My point is: when we break things that seem simple down into even simpler pieces, they start to seem even simpler, do they not?
Dear Patrons,
Will you consider visiting my website and reading a book I’ve written- “How to Design a Universal Artificial Intelligence.” For over ten years, I have been working on a method of semantic interpretation that applies in any situation. Using this method, I believe that a software program can pass the Turing Test. The book is currently online, in its entirety, and I am requesting your review of this work. This is it; this is real; this is a working counterpart program.
I currently have the entire book online, in html, for anyone to read (and a paperback is available for purchase). I can promise you that this is not an amateurish attempt to make a counterpart machine. This is an approach is based upon a method of semantic interpretation that is fail-safe. In adult form, this machine will recognize and analyze all human actions, all discrete human actions, without fail. This is a program that can break down human conversation into its elemental parts and elemental motives. This is a very different approach than that of others studying human cognition.
I would hope that you understand that I am quite knowledgeable in my profession of construction and that I have inadvertently studied human behavior from a very different perspective. I am not a psychologist, a biologist, a mathematician, or even a programmer. I am a behaviorist. And like other behavioral psychologist I am only analyzing what is tangible, calculable. My research is based upon empirical data.
I thank You for your time, and I hope that you will consider this approach to the Turing problem.
Wil Holland
www.universalartificialintelligence.com