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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Replying to @literalbanana
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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Replying to @almostlikethat
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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Replying to @literalbanana @almostlikethat
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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Replying to @mtraven @Meaningness and
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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Replying to @mtraven @Meaningness and
This involved the parties coming before the High Priest (Lenat) who would do a peculiar little rocking movement before the whiteboard and come up with the One Right Way to represent whatever the thing in question was.
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the rocking movement is the most EM observation 
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