Re:Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thin...
by coldtea on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:48PM
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>To me it seems like this is the trouble: for you, reading Foucault, it is clear what is meant by truth and that the word is constrained to a narrow scope. But to others, including me, it is not at all clear how far the scope goes.
Well, why would it be clear from the start (without familiarity)?
I mean, what "weight" on a NN means is not clear to me until I study machine learning, right?
Then I find out that it doesn't have the same meaning as it does in dietary terms, physics, or legal matters (the "weight of the situation").
For people reading Foucault when he wrote it, which is theory-obsessed bibliophiles in 1960-1980s Paris academic and student and political world, primarily, it was as clear as would be for Peter Norvig to read an AI paper and understanding everything.
Well, why would it be clear from the start (without familiarity)?
I mean, what "weight" on a NN means is not clear to me until I study machine learning, right?
Then I find out that it doesn't have the same meaning as it does in dietary terms, physics, or legal matters (the "weight of the situation").
For people reading Foucault when he wrote it, which is theory-obsessed bibliophiles in 1960-1980s Paris academic and student and political world, primarily, it was as clear as would be for Peter Norvig to read an AI paper and understanding everything.