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Are people silly for not having coherent, non-contradictory beliefs, or is it silly to expect intelligent people to have global, universal, coherent beliefs about messy reality?
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Jennifer RM
@almostlikethat
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The Cyc Project turned common sense into predicate logic...
...and found it necessary to create lots and lots of "microtheories" (locally consistent, mutually inconsistent) because anything vaguely large acquired contradictions.
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Indexical Banana
@literalbanana
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looks like douglas lenat was at xerox parc in the early 80s - lucy suchman and other EM people were around then, I wonder if it influenced him?
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Dedicating Ruckus
@ded_ruckus
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23. sij |
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both
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Indexical Banana
@literalbanana
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23. sij |
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true
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Adam Strandberg
@The_Lagrangian
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23. sij |
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it's okay to stan keto while hating on nutritional science we won't hurt you
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Indexical Banana
@literalbanana
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23. sij |
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it’s 100% not that I’m privileging a diet in which members of my species are excluded as food
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Meekaale Brockman
@meekaale
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24. sij |
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Christopher Alexander's grand unified theory of order is interesting because it's actually grounded in messy reality, aimed at returning to even messier reality
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Indexical Banana
@literalbanana
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24. sij |
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yes!
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☉rthnormalist
@orthonormalist
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23. sij |
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Incoherent things are to be properly labeled and the contrast to be very clearly specified (e.g. quantum physics vs relativity)
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Indexical Banana
@literalbanana
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wrongfully arrested for vandalism just because I was going around the world with my two rubber stamps that say “incoherent” and “coherent”
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