The Cluster Structure of Thingspace — LessWrong

The notion of a "configuration space" is a way of translating object descriptions into object positions. It may seem like blue is "closer" to blue-g…

x The Cluster Structure of Thingspace — LessWrong A Human's Guide to Words Carving / Clustering Reality Thingspace Philosophy of Language World Modeling Frontpage 168 The Cluster Structure of Thingspace by Eliezer Yudkowsky 8th Feb 2008 5 min read 32 168 The notion of a "configuration space" is a way of translating object descriptions into object positions. It may seem like blue is "closer" to blue-green than to red , but how much closer? It's hard to answer that question by just staring at the colors. But it helps to know that the (proportional) color coordinates in RGB are 0:0:5, 0:3:2 and 5

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