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Gerrymandering: The revision of constituency boundaries with the aim of changing majorities and minorities. For example, a constituency with a majority for one party can be expanded along its boundaries so that the majority is no longer as significant. The term dates back to Governor Gerry of Massachusetts in the 19th century, who first used this technique._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Marvin Minsky on Gerrymandering - Dictionary of Arguments
I 95 Gerrymandering/Artificial Intelligence/problem solving/Minsky: (…) in a complex human brain, a great many layers of agencies are interposed between the ones that deal with body needs and those that represent or recognize our intellectual accomplishments. The only way to solve hard problems is by breaking them into smaller ones (…) our problem-solving agents need simple summaries of how things are going. Let's suppose each agent's summary is based on other summaries it gets from the agents it supervises. >Intelligence, >Superintelligence, >Artificial Intelligence, >Artificial Consciousness, >Strong Artificial Intelligence, >Artificial Neural Networks, >Artificial General Intelligence, >AI Research, cf. >ChatGPT Problem: (…) no such summary can say very much of what your agencies actually learned. Your knot-tying processes learned which actions worked and failed, your paper-folding and gift-selecting processes had other failures and accomplishments; but your overall assessment of the experience cannot reflect all those details. [That] is a pathological example of what could happen if every such summary were based on a simple majority decision._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Minsky I Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind New York 1985 Minsky II Marvin Minsky Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003 |