Text Considered Harmful

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KnowledgeRepresentation

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When people make the effort to express themselves in knowledge rather than text, they make it easier for machines (without AI) to process their utterences usefully. In turn, this means computers can do a much better job of helping us reuse, improve and (through richly 'typed' representations) understand our collected knowledge. Writing text is a form of expression whose usefullness lies somewhere on the spectrum between screaming incoherently in the wilderness and crafting fully machine-understandable knowledge in Cyc.

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