[Bmi] I was banned from connectionist mailing list?

[Juyang Weng]

Ben, you have good points and also raised an point.

Biology in the old days have been mostly about taxonomy.
Today's biology is much about genomics.
Biology in the future will be much more about development, computation, 
and mathematics.
The first article of that BMM is about a controversy in "deep learning".
"Connectionists" is about brains and, if we look a little farther, 
politics is brains' phenomena.
What should be the role of a moderator?
Define the boundaries of user interests or filter out irrelevant 
commercial ads and garbage?

-John

On 3/31/15 8:15 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> I agree with Joanna.
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> I can see why the list moderators would consider the TOC of
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> http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/
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> off-topic since it seems to mainly be about politics rather than
> connectionist scientific material.
>
> However, I feel they should have warned you of their opinion first
> rather than banning you summarily as you report they have done....
>
> -- Ben
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Joanna Bryson <jjb at cs.bath.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> I agree that the content of BMI is not really very apporpriate to most of
>> the interests of Connectionists, but I would be concerned if the mailing
>> list organisers didn't explain this to you first rather than just banning
>> you without conversation.  When I have moderated mailing lists, I have
>> normally contacted people who were forwarding marginally inappropriate
>> content to the list, though I do just block those who post completely
>> inappropriate things to the list and don't seem to actually follow, read and
>> know the content of the list.
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>> Joanna
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>> As Juyang Weng wrote (Yesterday at 2:23pm):
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