[ExI] new term

[Gadersd]

> I always have mixed feelings when it comes to terms and labels. Especially when it comes to myself, my beliefs and preferences. I prefer to talk about them directly than under the umbrella of an "ism".

I used to describe myself with labels but I eventually realized that my definitions of many labels doesn’t agree with the definitions others use and that definitions shift over time. The result is that many people end up arguing semantics rather than the actual content of their beliefs.

This reminds me of the old trend in artificial intelligence of using symbol based methods. This paradigm eventually fell out of favor when machine learning became popular. The reason is that symbols often don’t actually reflect the underlying reality they represent, often they are just arbitrary labels. By focusing on raw computation, machine learning has a much greater ability to model actual reality and achieves much better results in practice than symbol based methods. Technically, it is all symbols deep down: 1s and 0s. However, machine learning computes at a much lower level than symbol based methods, sort of like the difference between computing the digits 3.14… of pi vs using just the symbol π.

> On Apr 9, 2023, at 5:21 PM, efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> I always have mixed feelings when it comes to terms and labels. Especially when it comes to myself, my beliefs and preferences. I prefer to talk about them directly than under the umbrella of an "ism".
> 
> Terms and labling can be, if used with bad intent, the poisonous soil from which identity politics spring. Find a group, define an external enemy group and prosper (as a politician). =(
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2023, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> 
>> Sapiosexual - meaning attraction to people who are intelligent.
>> I noticed when teaching that when I knew that a student was very intelligent, they became more attractive to me (females only).  bill
>> w
>> bill w
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