Wittgenstein showed that just because I say "extended family" doesn't mean I have a precise context-free definition of it.
- Wittgenstein showed that just because I say "extended family" doesn't mean I have a precise context-free definition of it.
- There is no context-free definition of "tall".
- It depends on the context.
- Tall for a toddler in preschool?
- Tall for the general adult population?
- Tall for an NBA player?
- Words don't function like predicates.
- They can be useful without being fully formalized in anyone's head.
- Computers, before LLMs, had to formalize everything to interact with it.
- That led to the logarithmic-benefit-for-exponential-cost curve.