This question was recently raised by an excellent thinker and writer I follow (stalk?) on the Internet. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who use the Internet are by and large unaware that they have sold pretty much all their data (see e.g. “All Your Data Are More Free to Us” or in case that… Continue reading Whatever happened to intellectual property rights?
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Is Reliability a Matter of Communal Religious Belief?
I think perhaps reliability is actually a matter of a communally shared belief. Community members may actually consider something to be reliable because other members of the community believe in (more or less) the same thing. [1] This past week a few things appeared on my radar which reminded me of how central the notion… Continue reading Is Reliability a Matter of Communal Religious Belief?
Whose Language?
Let me start with a little English lesson. English has many homonyms, other languages also have many homonyms. Sometimes I try to wake people up to the fact that there are many words in their own language that sound just like something completely different in other languages. I often have to think twice about the… Continue reading Whose Language?
Writing (by Machines for Humans)
At the conclusion of Chapter 2 (“Relationships and Things“), we considered the question of whether languages might be interpreted across species. Now I want to consider whether a particular kind of language can be used for communication between humans and machines. Let me give you the answer right at the outset: such languages are already… Continue reading Writing (by Machines for Humans)
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