Before means not after. After means at a later time. Later means not earlier. Earlier means before.
Ultimately every word in the dictionary is defined using other words in the same dictionary. That is what words mean. A language model is a probability distribution over word sequences. Two words have the same meaning if you can swap one for the other in any sequence without changing the probability of that sequence. Meaning would be meaningless if words weren't also associated with nonverbal sensorimotor concepts in addition to other words. On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 7:02 AM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Aren't we back to Kant here? Time and space as fundamental > categories, not fully reducible to other things... > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 7:11 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ive got this feeling, that things are impossible to put. I want to tell > my computer what before means, but I end up just saying before in the > sentence itself. "before means before." > > > > That is bullshit. > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + > participants + delivery options Permalink > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to > live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same > time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, > burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders > across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td59c0c4714ffb511-M9c52bd5d2a12515d55d635c0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
