X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2018%2Fblegg-mode.md;h=383a680dc1f959cef87206ce7d06c50140489123;hp=8cd6b4944f070f5644d81e9a97b06a268b2b39b2;hb=678f669b5ee4f2162ff5999084adcb4a56105e83;hpb=7091ebe929779a8bb3d5a3130060ba4ffc045fa7 diff --git a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md index 8cd6b49..383a680 100644 --- a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md +++ b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Blegg Mode Date: 2018-02-01 13:45 Category: commentary -Tags: deniably allegorical, epistemology +Tags: categorization, deniably allegorical, epistemology As part of a series—ah, Sequence—of [posts explaining the hidden Bayesian structure of language](https://www.lesserwrong.com/sequences/SGB7Y5WERh4skwtnb), Eliezer Yudkowsky [discusses](http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/) [a parable](http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/) [about](http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/) factory workers faced with the task of sorting objects which very strongly tend to _either_ be blue, egg-shaped, furry, flexible, opaque, luminescent, and vanadium-cored (categorized by the workers as "bleggs"), _or_ red, cube-shaped, smooth, hard, translucent, non-luminescent, and palladium-cored (categorized by the workers as "rubes").