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The idea of an implicit dialogical contract is common to the ideas of Alfred Jules Ayer, Jurgen Habermas and Carl Rogers in addition to these "Erotetic" philoso
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
The idea of an implicit dialogical contract is common to the ideas of
Alfred Jules Ayer, Jurgen Habermas and Carl Rogers in addition to
these "Erotetic" philosophers.
An implicit question rides along with a speech act. Even ones like
submitting post to HN. In this case it is:
"Oh how interesting is Erotetics.. what might this imply for digital
technologies of social or commercial value?"
And the response might be:
"Oh yes, I see there's an overlap with formal query languages (indeed
structured ones (SQL)), so maybe we can learn to make better databases"
OR
"Hmm isn't it interesting that in machine learning the trainer knows
both the question and the answer so; is the weight matrix essentially
the proof that links the a-priori to the consequent? What can this
tell us about building better neural nets"
And still, these questions carry along with them implied questions of
their own, perhaps to do with the study of language as branch of
computing.
Each participant "signs" (like a block-chain) their contribution not
just with a response, but with an implicit expectation.
Wouldn't it be a "fun" (and strange) world, if like that scene in
Mr. Robot where everyone at the Allsafe office wears a label that sums
up their life, if each comment also had a "Why I am saying this and
what I expect in response" field.
- CRConrad 5y ago> language as branch of computing. Or computing as a branch of language?