Eugine_Nier comments on Folk grammar and morality - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Emile 17 December 2010 09:20PM

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Comment author: Alexandros 17 December 2010 10:41:02PM *  0 points [-]

You're of course right, which is why I said CEV even harder. Extracting a formal grammar only has to achieve coherence, and yet, mainstream linguistics has all but given up. State of the art machine translation tools use statistical inference instead of vast rulesets and I shudder to think what that would mean for CEV.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 December 2010 11:06:53PM 3 points [-]

State of the art machine translation tools use statistical inference instead of vast rulesets and I shudder to think what that would mean for CEV.

It would mean using Bayesian (probabilistic) logic instead of Aristotelian logic.