Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!FLASH.BELLCORE.COM!amsler From: amsler@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: Splitting the List Message-ID: <8612032058.AA05971@flash.bellcore.com> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 15:58:50 EST Article-I.D.: flash.8612032058.AA05971 Posted: Wed Dec 3 15:58:50 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Dec-86 05:39:18 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 Approved: ailist@sri-stripe.arpa I don't think the idea of splitting the list is practical. The real question is whether the philosophy discussion can sustain a whole mailing list on its own. I doubt it could. This is a topic which will eventually fade and to split the list doubles the work for the moderator. Is someone offering to become the new moderator of the AI Philosophy list? [I should mention that there is a Metaphilosophers list at MIT-OZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU, as well as the Psychnet Newsletter from EPsynet%UHUMVM1.BITNET@WISCVM. The Phil-Sci list at MIT used to carry much more of such philosophical discussion than AIList has had recently. (Part of that was due to the quotations being nested four levels deep, which obviously multiplies the net traffic.) I am surprised -- but relieved -- that so few AIList readers have participated in these exchanges. Perhaps the philosophers dropped out long ago because AIList has had so little discussion of AI foundations. My own bias is toward computational techniques for coaxing more intelligent behavior from computers, regardless of theoretical adequacy. -- KIL]