You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
Interpretation
Understanding requires recognizing multiple perspectives.
This quote by Marvin Minsky emphasizes the importance of looking at situations from various angles. It suggests that true understanding goes beyond a singular perspective and requires an appreciation for the complexity of ideas, problems, and solutions. By advocating for a multi-faceted approach, Minsky encourages critical thinking and open-mindedness in our quest for knowledge.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about problem-solving during meetings.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.
I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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