From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 20:03:15 MDT
Durant Schoon wrote:
>
> <human:sally>
>
> <appendage:arms>
> <quantity:number> 2 </quantity:number>
> </appendage:arms>
Then there's an inconvenience when the programmer needs to type:
sally.appendage:arms = 3
instead of
sally.arms = 3
with even worse problems for longer expressions.
<appendage:arms> doesn't need to be unique throughout the entire program
state; if <arms> is unique *within* class <human>, it's enough.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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