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RobotWisdom

JornBarger described his phrase “Robot Wisdom” in his blog post, "Heraldic Barcodes and the semantic web."

Assuming that his OpenWebContentLicense applies:

 my phrase 'robot wisdom'
 was always meant to imply
 science-logic ('robot')
 tempered by art-intuition ('wisdom')
 
 asserting that the social
 sciences
 fail
 because they fail to meet
 novelists' standards
 of realism
 
 and now
 the first ontologies
 for the semantic web
 fail too
 because they lack
 
 poetry
 
 which is intuition's metric
 for psychological realism
 
 but here's an antidote
 
 or at least a try
 at meeting them halfway:
 
 re-format your
 ontologies, for classifying
 
 photos
 
 music
 
 news
 
 to show them graphically
 iconically
 heraldically
 
 as human-readable 'barcodes'
 
 that put first things first
 
 human priorities before
 machine priorities
 
 for music, foregrounding
 the genre
 the beat
 the stress/soothingness
 
 for pix
 the prettiness
 the subject
 the degree of artifice
 (eg photoshop)
 
 for news stories
 the place
 the category
 (disaster, biz, bizarre)
 the interestingness
 
 heraldic representations
 putting 1st things 1st
 but leaving room for tweaks
 
 and judging
 first and last
 by their aptness
 for the eye

"Heraldic Barcodes and the semantic web."

It’s poetry, so its hard to understand exactly what is meant here, but, here are some relations.

So let’s continue with “psychological realism.”

I’m going to say that this is like what we’re calling “MetaPhysics,” and then ask you to look at the SocialMapApril2006 from the angle of MetaPhysics, and then from the angle of “graphically,” “iconically,” “heraldically,” and then from the angle of “human first.”

(That is: I think we can understand all of these various ideas better, by considering our own, concrete, SocialMapApril2006.)

So, in short: I think we could fulfill “Robot Wisdom” strategy by making more things like the SocialMapApril2006, but for all walks of semantic web data.

The strategy now makes sense to me.

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