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> My problem with this particular approach is that it requires us all to agree on what things are called Walk around your home and notice [almost] everything a
by mycall 3y ago
> My problem with this particular approach is that it requires us all to agree on what things are called
Walk around your home and notice [almost] everything already has a name for it as it comes from some store (unique handmade items are an outlier). Let's just label things we all agree they are called (or give them multiple labels).
- doctorhandshake 3y agoI think you overestimate the degree to which your choice of words overlaps with those of others, especially when you try to be more specific than a generic noun by applying modifiers or less-used nouns. What you call a daybed I might call a couch or a sofa or a lounge chair or a chaise or a hassock or a flat couch or a downstairs bed or a family bed … and all this presumes I speak the same flavor of English you do, or that whoever made the data set is familiar with the type of furniture I live around, or how it’s used. The examples are literally limitless, before you even get into the truly subjective things - not just names but opinions about things - that people might want to use to connect digital things to real things. Stuff like ‘larger than average’, ‘wasteful’, ‘beautiful,’ ‘sacred’, ‘durable’, etc etc etc Believing there is one map from the real world to the world of symbols is solipsism.