[Bmi] I was banned from connectionist mailing list?

[Juyang Weng]

Hi Ben,

What "different outlook" do you suggest?  I know that it takes a long time,
but doing it seems better than not doing it.  I know that many people
have hated me already.  Some people already said to me that people do not
trust us because we have only a CS degree, not any degree in social 
science.

Your second point makes a lot of sense.  For that reason, many Chinese
have also hated me.   If you can find a person or use a web to translate 
from
Chinese to English, the following is my latest blog in the ScienceNet. It
directly addresses the safety of Mr. Xi Jinping after his term is over.
My wife said that somebody might create a traffic accident to wipe me out
when I visit China.

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-395089-879677.html

 From the above link, you can read all my controversial blogs. Sorry.

-John

On 4/3/15 10:58 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I think the bottom line is, if you want folks in the neuroscience or
> cog-sci or computing or engineering world to take BMM seriously and
> actually read it, you should stop putting political content in it,
> unless that political content is very *directly* related to neural or
> cog-sci issues....  You should use a different outlook for
> disseminating your political views.
>
> Regarding using an alias for your political articles, that's a
> separate issue.  But as someone who lives in China (I live in Hong
> Kong, but visit Beijing often), I'll tell you my view....  First, the
> Chinese gov't is not dumb and if they care they could very easily
> deduce who wrote your BMM politics articles, in spite of your use of
> an alias.  Second, they don't really care that much what is written in
> English on the outside-China Web....  To alarm them, you'd need to
> write in Chinese and get a following inside China.   Anyway this is
> just my observation and peripheral to the main matters at hand...
>
> -- Ben
>
>
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