Re: A plea against central planning (was: Why not import everything?)

Pat--

I think any society with central planning will be happy to provide more 
jobs for logicians;  still plenty of salt mines to be dug in, I'm told :-)

On a slightly (only slightly) more serious note, it seems to me that, in 
addition to the "ontology certification authorities", you'd also need to 
have "legality-of-ontology certification authorities" staffed with 
lawyers who would check to ensure that the ontologies used the proper 
legal phraseology (whatever the machine-interpretable version of that 
is) so that the "courts" (made up of agents) would properly interpret 
the resulting logical theories (say, if a dispute arose).  Any ontology 
would have to pass both "authorities" to be certified.  This would make 
sure that, while the ontology was bouncing back and forth (over and over 
again) between the lawyers and the logicians, the rest of us would be 
reasonably safe.

--Frank

pat hayes wrote:

>>
>> One other thing, I agree about the danger in staffing such organizations
>> entirely with logicians, they would have to include domain experts as
>> well.
> 
> 
> Hey, we need more jobs for logicians. Don't muddy the water here.
> 
> Pat


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