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The definition marks the goal. We can reach the goal without definition, but would we recognize it? And how much time and effort will be wasted by blindly tinke

• coldtea 4y ago
  >We can reach the goal without definition, but would we recognize it? You can very easily shoot a porn, even without being able to define what is pornographic and what is not (a proverbially notoriously difficult to define thing, often times debated legally in various countries, for example "movie where sex acts are performed" or "movie meant to arouse the viewer sexually" both don't cut it).
  • PurpleRamen 4y ago
    Because people know how sex works and how filming works. The debate is about organizing the space, how to divide the already revealed map.
    • coldtea 4y ago
      >Because people know how sex works and how filming works. Not exactly, because both sex and filming could be done in a non-porn setting - including those two together (e.g. a sexual art film). And the question mentioned wasn't what is a "film that has sex", but what is porn - and even more so, what is it's definition (the same thing you asked for in the original comment, as necessary to "marks the goal"). The answer here (but how do we know we made a porn if we can't give a strict definition of what porn is) is that we can tell intuitively. Well, the same holds for intelligence. That's perhaps the case for many things. Famously, we don't need to know what quadratic equations are to catch a baseball. Even though formally predicting its trajectory means solving one.