dope@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIf you can say enough things about a thing does that mean that you know what the thing is?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down121
arrow-up1-12arrow-down1message-squareIf you can say enough things about a thing does that mean that you know what the thing is?dope@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoIt’s relative. If I ask you about a trash can, you can say it’s a can for trash and yeah, you know what it is. But if we’re talking about a person, you can rattle off an entire Wikipedia article of facts about Taylor Swift but you don’t know her.
minus-squaredope@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoOffhand I can’t think of any knowledge about the real world that doesn’t amount to “a bunch of facts”. A big predictive model basically.
It’s relative. If I ask you about a trash can, you can say it’s a can for trash and yeah, you know what it is. But if we’re talking about a person, you can rattle off an entire Wikipedia article of facts about Taylor Swift but you don’t know her.
Offhand I can’t think of any knowledge about the real world that doesn’t amount to “a bunch of facts”. A big predictive model basically.