On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Lou Picciano <loupicciano@comcast.net>
wrote:
> New York (City) may not be the capital of New York, but it is The Center
> of The Known Universe(!)
> (Do the docs reflect this?)
>
Douglas Hofstadter had a debate, in one of his books, about "what is the
Moscow of New York?"
It was broadly an AI question, surrounding meaning, and several answers
fall out, from various senses of the matter.
- NYC as "da big city" was an answer;
- There's a town called Moscow, NY;
- There's a neighborhood in NYC that gets called "Little Odessa" that could
fit;
- Albany is the capital of NY much as Moscow is the capital of Russia
There's an AI/meaning debate to be had to question which meaning best fits
what someone was asking.
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When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
