SlashDot and MMTT Langs

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

BTW:  since I keep getting emails that ask me if I 
saw the SlashDot debate, and I don't read SlashDot, 
can someone summarize what that was about.  I'd like 
to ignore it, but sensible response requires a context.  

Note:

"U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee with a
reputation as a meticulous jurist, was randomly selected by a computer
program Friday in Washington, D.C. She replaces Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson, who had ordered Microsoft to be split into two separate companies."

So computer are already making our choices if not choosing our choices. I
wonder 
if the computer was running under Windows?   Note that had the computer been

HumanML-enabled, it could not have made a random choice.  Now you have to
figure 
out if that is a good thing or not.  Or perhaps a HumanML-enabled system
might 
have chosen the members of the list (chosen the choices) if not the winner.


Something to consider while debating use cases of HumanML.  Use cases are a 
way to appraoch some of the BrassTacks dilemmas.  Debating RDF and Semantic 
Web will only result in More Meta Than Thou language conflicts.  It doesn't 
matter yet.  We committed to XML Schemas and RDF and I've seen no evidence 
that we should change that.  If someone wants to do a RELAX version, have 
at but I don't think it adds to or detracts from the quality of the 
information properties.  A yetMoreAbstract notation might get us in even 
deeper MMTT debates.

Len 
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