Am I right in assuming that no-one has yet thought of a way to introduce a 'social contract' and appropriate govenrance? even in small organisation that are (just) large enough to see some benefit.
S. On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote at 03/05/2011 02:15 PM: > > Also, in addition to the ambiguous "people lie," I'd add > "ontological/knowledge engineering is hard." I think that malice and > incompetence should be considered two separate problems that don't > necessarily have exactly the same solution. > > > The "and" was meant as a separator. > > http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm > > > Then I say that laziness, incompetence, and malice are three separate > problems. > > And I see that Cory Doctorow identified this with his unquoted third > problem, "People are stupid." He's talking about competence at expression, > which, when generalized to Semantic Web, might include ability to > distinguish concepts like "has-a" and "is-a." I saw in the early '90s that > pretty simple static object-modeling confounded eluded a surprising number > of people, even after they received some instruction, and similar difficulty > was found in the fields of Knowledge Representation and Knowledge > Acquisition. (If one has ever had the misfortune of reading YouTube > comments, one might despair that we'll ever achieve even basic literacy by > 20th century standards, nevermind what we think is required for 21st century > expression on the Web.) > > These problems, and others, are not insurmountable. TeachScheme and the > like will help. Smarter approaches for the Semantic Web will also help. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
