jaisa
The Museum of Vestigial Desire has a new section, Intelligence, and its three texts went up this week.
Intelligence holds that nothing is intelligent in itself; an activity seems intelligent to whoever needs it done.
Poetry says people can still misinterpret, and no machine can.
Context asks what would follow from a secret language that machines could read only for some purposes and not for others.
I broke what the three say into a syntax of eight parts. They are where an intelligence’s keys come from, whom it seems intelligent to, whether it goes on learning, what it takes in, whether it relates one thing to another, what it does with what it receives, how much of a person’s story it is given, and whom it works for.
jaisa is a page for building with that syntax. You put a block in each part, and it describes the intelligence you have assembled. It says what that intelligence tends to do, what it opens and what it costs, and who says so.
The blocks come from the three texts, from Koher and Split-Domain Cognition, and from sixteen papers on methods that make each part possible. The descriptions also draw on ten books, Polanyi’s The Tacit Dimension and Gray and Suri’s Ghost Work among them.
Every line links to its source, either a passage quoted word for word or one of the papers.
The name comes from jaisa des waisa bhes, as the land, so the dress. An idea of intelligence takes its shape from where it is put.
It never says whether an idea of intelligence is a good one; the person building it decides that.
jaisa: https://jaisa.syntax.prayasabhinav.net
The intelligence syntax: https://syntax.prayasabhinav.net/intelligence/
Intelligence: https://museumofvestigialdesire.net/intelligence
Poetry: https://museumofvestigialdesire.net/intelligence/poetry
Context: https://museumofvestigialdesire.net/intelligence/context