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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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Indexical Banana
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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
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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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(EM=ethnomethodology sorry)
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Jennifer RM
@almostlikethat
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The stories often talk about a naval simulation game with well defined rules as an early inspiration for "simply" coding the rules for "everything". I always just assumed the microtheory thing was a pragmatic hack born of necessity? :-P
twitter.com/lexfridman/sta…
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David Chapman
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I think everyone involved with Cyc would be much happier if it were globally consistent. And I don’t think think Doug was influenced by EM. He’s very much an old-school AI guy; pretty much the last of them.
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mtraven
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I worked on Cyc for a couple of summers, and no, no hint of EM influence. I was pretty disenchanted with KR by that time, but I thought it would be really interesting to do a sociology of the knowledge creation process as embodied in the group there (at MCC).
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