{"id":2162,"date":"2008-12-11T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2008-12-11T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T00:30:46","slug":"worldview-manager-hits-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/11\/worldview-manager-hits-prime-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldview Manager Hits Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Optimizer ideas on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=362\">Worldview Manager<\/a> gets written up in Forbes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The program will work by showing users a list of statements about a topic and then asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with each. At the end, the system will present users with a list of the statements they endorsed that contradict one another. It will also suggest that users reconsider those views and the assumptions behind them.<br \/>\nSimilar teaching programs already exist for narrow fields, especially in technical areas of philosophy. Aaronson, though, is extremely ambitious for Worldview Manager and wants it to cover all the hot-button issues: gay marriage, the Middle East and more.<br \/>\nThe program won&#8217;t take sides. In fact, two people with opposite ideas about, say, animal rights, could both get the equivalent of a passing score from the program, as long as their ideas were internally consistent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some reason this last line reminds me of a line from Emerson: &#8220;A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.&#8221;  Please rank: consistent and wrong, inconsistent and correct, consistent and right, or inconsistent and wrong.  Of course you will yell that it is impossible to be inconsistent and correct, but I just watched a PBS special on quantum gravity (the one where the narrator talks really really slow.  Does this really help people understand?), so for now I believe otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Optimizer ideas on Worldview Manager gets written up in Forbes. The program will work by showing users a list of statements about a topic and then asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with each. At the end, the system will present users with a list of the statements they endorsed that contradict &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/11\/worldview-manager-hits-prime-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worldview Manager Hits Prime Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}