Comments on: Sexism, Racism and the Ism of Reasoning http://ferrouswheel.me/2010/03/the-ism-of-reasoning/ watching the world turn. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joel http://ferrouswheel.me/2010/03/the-ism-of-reasoning/comment-page-1/#comment-2488 Joel Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:43:52 +0000 http://ferrouswheel.me/?p=467#comment-2488 Yeah - I agree. I guess it's an awareness of the limitations of Isms/generalisations and willingness to improve one's knowledge about specific instances. The deeper problem is that a large part of intelligence is about resource allocation, and because we will always have limited resources we'll be unable to perfectly represent every individual... their representation will always be, to some extents, built from generalisations. Yeah – I agree. I guess it’s an awareness of the limitations of Isms/generalisations and willingness to improve one’s knowledge about specific instances.

The deeper problem is that a large part of intelligence is about resource allocation, and because we will always have limited resources we’ll be unable to perfectly represent every individual… their representation will always be, to some extents, built from generalisations.

]]> By: iwikiwi http://ferrouswheel.me/2010/03/the-ism-of-reasoning/comment-page-1/#comment-2483 iwikiwi Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:48:48 +0000 http://ferrouswheel.me/?p=467#comment-2483 haha, I see that linas_ needs to add some more rules to his "consistency checking" in http://buildbot.opencog.org/doxygen/d7/d41/opencog_2nlp_2seme_2README-source.html to not make it racist ;) In more general terms, I think strong concepts such as the two isms shouldn't be inherited or environmentally influenced. And generalizations are known to fail in almost everything(experimental readings that go off charts, birth of the next prodigy etc.). Having a disposition is fine, but having one which can be consciously be altered is what counts, I think. I had fun reading haha, I see that linas_ needs to add some more rules to his “consistency checking” in
http://buildbot.opencog.org/doxygen/d7/d41/opencog_2nlp_2seme_2README-source.html to not make it racist ;)

In more general terms, I think strong concepts such as the two isms shouldn’t be inherited or environmentally influenced. And generalizations are known to fail in almost everything(experimental readings that go off charts, birth of the next prodigy etc.). Having a disposition is fine, but having one which can be consciously be altered is what counts, I think.

I had fun reading

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