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From: whitten@netcom.com (David Whitten)
Subject: CYC and I-F
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 23:42:45 GMT
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CYC is an attempt by some researchers to record the hundreds and thousands
of facts that we call "common sense".

I-F (Interactive Fiction) is an attempt to write stories that are
interactive, and embody a great deal of knowledge about the world that
the story is about.

How many I-F stories are about worlds that don't exist?
IE: the 'assumptions' in the story wouldn't be incorporated in the common
sense database created by the CYC researchers?

It seems to me that a lot of the I-F stories would need augmentation
to a CYC type database.

COmments?

David (whitten@netcom.com) (214) 437-5255

