The additional power is to mislead someone into thinking an expression is about one thing, when it's really about another thing. I.e. in this context, it's a way to troll and "riff" off some arbitrary string you found in some other post. In some contexts, however, it's more serious. Conspiracy theories use metaphor liberally in order to *trick* suckers into thinking something that's simply not true.
On 5/28/20 9:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > It seems to me like the value of metaphors fits into a sparse dictionary > learning approach. If you want to compress a picture of, say, the new Apple > headquarters, it helps if one has seen a circle or a torus in some form, and > can just refer to that. It would also help to have seen pictures of trees > and shrubs to tweak, and to have seen solar panels. Some features will be > unique, and simple atoms are needed to refine the image. I'm skeptical that > metaphor is the best enduring representation though. After one has seen > many circles and ovals (or conic sections), a parameterized (even dependent) > type becomes evident. -- ☣ uǝlƃ -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
