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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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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I was not qualified to do this, but I did note with some glee that there was a little ritual in place to deal with inconsistencies and other representational problems.
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Yeah. My current working model is that serious consistency is just intractable. Even basic logic runs into 3SAT. Many operations on belief nets are NP-hard. There are correct ways to do things... they are generally infeasible... therefore we approximate and satisfice.
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