Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang...
by adwn on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:58AM
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How could this be any worse than tracking and updating those shifts of definition across thousands of articles in hundreds of different languages?
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Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang...
by johnday on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:21AM
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The point is that "mayors of San Fransisco" does not have a single answer, and therefore any answer WikiData provides will be glossing over a mountain of nuance and important distinctions in terminology.
The same is true of a million million different individual and aggregated data points all across WikiData.
Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang...
by adwn on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:34AM
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In the context of Wikipedia articles about the Western US city commonly called "San Francisco", the concept of "mayor" is sufficiently well defined that there is a single answer to it.
The concerns voiced here sound a little like "What if in a hundred years, GPT-255 has subjugated all of humanity into a hive-mind and the terms 'San Francisco' and 'mayor' are meaningless?"
Yes, well. One thing at a time.
Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang...
by johnday on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:00PM
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I was using the singular example from the parent comment. If it would convince you more, I will provide others - though I'm sure you could think of some yourself, if the mood took you.