Case-based reasoning is VERY old. It shows up prominently in the Catholic tradition of practical ethics, drawing on Aristotelian thought. Of course in a more informal sense, people have been reasoning on a case-by-case basis since time immemorial.
While futile from a personal and business aspect, it’s certainly valuable and useful otherwise. Maybe that’s implied here as you’re listing contributions, but I wanted to emphasize that it wasn’t a waste outside of that narrow band of futility.
Why do people have to have 'commercial value' to get black bars? Why do people have to pass the ideological police? Why isn't serving as a visible advocate of a certain logical model enough?
I think my bias comes from having started my career in AI on the inference side and having (perhaps not so much long term :) seen Cyc as a shining city on a hill. Lenat certainly established that logical model even if we've since gone onto other things.
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Didn't he:
- invent case based reasoning
- build Eurisko and AM
- write a discipline defining paper ("Why AM and Eurisko appear to work")
- undertake an ambitious but ultimately futile high risk research gamble with Cyc?
Case-based reasoning is VERY old. It shows up prominently in the Catholic tradition of practical ethics, drawing on Aristotelian thought. Of course in a more informal sense, people have been reasoning on a case-by-case basis since time immemorial.
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While futile from a personal and business aspect, it’s certainly valuable and useful otherwise. Maybe that’s implied here as you’re listing contributions, but I wanted to emphasize that it wasn’t a waste outside of that narrow band of futility.
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Consider giving more grace. Life is short, and kindness is free.
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Why do people have to have 'commercial value' to get black bars? Why do people have to pass the ideological police? Why isn't serving as a visible advocate of a certain logical model enough?
I think my bias comes from having started my career in AI on the inference side and having (perhaps not so much long term :) seen Cyc as a shining city on a hill. Lenat certainly established that logical model even if we've since gone onto other things.
I believe the parent poster claims that a black bar should meet either a commercial, hacker-cultural, or open-source contribution one.
I got a lot of value out of some of the papers he wrote, and what bits of Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems I managed to read.
he is the patron hacker of players who use computers to break board games or war games
I think you don't understand the meaning of the black bar if "commercial value" is one of the metrics.
Steve Jobs received one - by which criteria, if not commercial (to other people) value?
It certainly wasn't for the warmth of his personality, his impeccable business ethics, or for his libre open-source contributions.
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Not even Warnock got a black bar even when asked for one as a mark of respect: [0]
I guess the black bar really is an ideological thing. Rather than being supposedly a 'mark of respect'.
Regardless, RIP Doug.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197852
Wouldn't it also be a mark of respect to check, before saying something that mean, whether it's true or not?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230821003655/https://news.ycom...
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Wow, that is really mean!