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Article states: "In his book, Personal Knowledge Polanyi introduced the expression tacit knowledge. Most of the knowledge we apply in everyday life is tacit. In
by 8bitsrule 4y ago
Article states: "In his book, Personal Knowledge Polanyi introduced the expression tacit knowledge. Most of the knowledge we apply in everyday life is tacit. In fact, we do not know which rules we apply when we perform a task."
This is an essential realization. The author's examples (swimming, bicycle-riding) are instructive. Also consider that each of us learned to understand a human language - an extremely complex task - with little explicit teaching. Our minds somehow learn to decode the complex patterns in language. Also languages often often refer to a very complex natural environment we must also perceive and comprehend. That amazing capability was not constructed.
For a shorter intro to Polanyi's thoughts, try 1964 book The Tacit Dimension.
Not ruling out AGI as possible. The question is whether we will be able to communicate with it if its referents are very different from ours. And then there's the question: why would it cooperate rather than compete?