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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(EM=ethnomethodology sorry)
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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? :-Phttps://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1199450924579733504 …
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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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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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