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>I interpret the platonic ideal of objects as simply doubling down on the part of our brians that classifies stuff. People getting obsessed with unreasonably la
by s3000 4y ago
>I interpret the platonic ideal of objects as simply doubling down on the part of our brians that classifies stuff. People getting obsessed with unreasonably large breasts aren’t chasing some ideal outside of their own perception of the world, they just get stronger signals from some neurons in their brain.
In other words, create AI with neuronal networks. However, if we figure out which ideals make people get obsessed with large breasts, wouldn't we have a framework to build AI with logic, abstractions and ontologies?
- Retric 4y agoUnderstanding aspects of how something works doesn’t mean you can recreate the whole thing. Artists figured out a long time ago that the general public prefers exaggerated figures especially in less true to life representations. It’s really just an observation of preference. Keep digging into this stuff and you don’t find a convergence of preferences to some ideal. Restaurants give people salt shakers because people don’t all want the same amount of it on their food. Which causes issues for companies selling prepackaged food etc. At the same time the ideal of perfection doesn’t go away, we assume restaurants can be ranked on the qualify of their food while acknowledging people have different food preferences.