On 1/28/07, Eric Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you ever played 20 questions?
Yep. In the games I've played,
Alice in Wonderland would be a fine topic. I admit its surprising that one plays as well as one does.
Interesting, and surprising, but I don't draw the same conclusion as you do. The interesting conclusion I draw is that each group/circle of people who play the game must have a different set of criteria for deciding what's a fair question, and that we therefore must have a very surprising tacit ability to judge what level of detail constitutes 20 bits of information. It remains the case that we do know about more than a million things; you can't build a human-equivalent mind with a million knowledge items. (Or with mere explicit knowledge items at all, as Cyc has adequately demonstrated.) ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
