Comments on: Podcast talks about responsible fairness at Google and JPB Liberty https://brianoflondon.me/2019/06/podcast-talks-about-responsible-fairness-at-google-and-jpb-liberty/ The collected works of Brian of London Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5 By: Tarquin The Rotter https://brianoflondon.me/2019/06/podcast-talks-about-responsible-fairness-at-google-and-jpb-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:02:29 +0000 https://brianoflondon.me/?p=1226#comment-141 Best of luck with the JPB Liberty suit. I hope you cream the bastards.

But on more mundane matters … 🙂

Mundia and Modia strike me as based on the Latin, mundus and modus, and they gel rather well, at least for me. But then I was born in the 1940s and so had Latin shoved down my throat at school for years on end. Fortunately I managed to regurgitate most of it. 🙂

By the way, Greek terms seem* more common to the hard sciences, physics particularly, than those derived from Latin. So, to rub it in, perhaps it would have been nicer to steal from the Greeks again when coining the two names. In this regard the best I can come up with ‘Logia’ and ‘Phantasia’ (reason vs. fantasy) but then my Greek is even worse than my Latin. I’m sure someone could improve on those, especially as they miss out on the nice alliteration of Mundia and Modia. But still, I think it rude to try and change the terms now — it strikes me as rather disrespectful to the author of these very useful notions.

* I’m happy to be corrected by those who know better.

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