Do you have a more realistic (and perhaps more specific, and ideally apolitical) example than “cooperation is a fuzzy concept, so you have no way to deny that I am cooperating”? (All instances of this that I managed to imagine were either actually complicated, about something else, or something that I could resolve by replying “I don’t care about your language games” and treating you as non-cooperative.)
The actual example I was thinking of is the trans issues (about which we’ve had a number of posts by someone else). In a sense, “woman” is a fuzzy concept, but the demand “if someone claims to be a woman, you must consider them to be one” isn’t limited to the fuzzy areas, but is often justified by reference to the fuzzy areas.
Ok, got it. Though, not sure if I have a good answer. With trans issues, I don’t know how to decouple the “concepts and terminology” part of the problem from the “political” issues. So perhaps the solution with AI terminology is to establish the precise terminology? And perhaps to establish it before this becomes an issue where some actors benefit from ambiguity (and will therefore resist disambiguation)? [I don’t know, low confidence on all of this.]
Do you have a more realistic (and perhaps more specific, and ideally apolitical) example than “cooperation is a fuzzy concept, so you have no way to deny that I am cooperating”? (All instances of this that I managed to imagine were either actually complicated, about something else, or something that I could resolve by replying “I don’t care about your language games” and treating you as non-cooperative.)
The actual example I was thinking of is the trans issues (about which we’ve had a number of posts by someone else). In a sense, “woman” is a fuzzy concept, but the demand “if someone claims to be a woman, you must consider them to be one” isn’t limited to the fuzzy areas, but is often justified by reference to the fuzzy areas.
Ok, got it. Though, not sure if I have a good answer. With trans issues, I don’t know how to decouple the “concepts and terminology” part of the problem from the “political” issues. So perhaps the solution with AI terminology is to establish the precise terminology? And perhaps to establish it before this becomes an issue where some actors benefit from ambiguity (and will therefore resist disambiguation)? [I don’t know, low confidence on all of this.]