Hacker News with Generative AI: Categorization

Ontology Is Overrated – Categories, Links, and Tags (2005) (archive.org)
Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong.
Ontology, Categorization, Metadata, Web Development, Information Architecture
19 points by Tomte 24 days ago | 3 comments
How We Sort the World (mitpress.mit.edu)
Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek patterns, organization, and control. Or, as cognitive psychologist Gregory Murphy puts it: “We put an awful lot of effort into trying to figure out and convince others of just what kind of person someone is, what kind of action something was, and even what kind of object something is.”
Psychology, Cognitive Science, Categorization, Social Psychology, Human Behavior
43 points by r721 192 days ago | 19 comments