I liked some of the lesswrong.com post, but I disagree that AI folks must have chosen the Nixon example for purposes of getting a dig in. I don't know their motives and I suspect that the author of that post doesn't either. Speaking for myself, there's an example of language and logic that I occasionally trot out, namely the fact that the sentence "General Westmoreland did not deceive LBJ" is not synonymous with the formally equivalent sentence "LBJ was not deceived by General Westmoreland". I came across the latter sentence in an issue of Newsweek around 1980, noticed the amusingly asymmetrical implications of negation in the active and passive moods, and have used the sentence as an example ever since. I use it because it's the first example I became aware of, not because I have an axe to grind about LBJ or General Westmoreland or the Vietnam War. Jim Propp On Wednesday, November 19, 2014, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:59 AM, <rcs@xmission.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
Politics is strongly discouraged. ... We don't want to get into the merits or otherwise of animals, vegetables, or the VietNam war: It will spoil the list.
Agreed: http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com <javascript:;> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com
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