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.]
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.]