Crowds and Crowd-Pleasing in Plato

Interactive Crowds: Real-Time Crowdsourcing and Crowd Agents

People can now connect instantly via nearly ubiquitous broadband connections, enabling interactive computational systems that are no longer constrained to machine-based automation alone. Instead, they can work in concert with the ondemand labor of people available on the web (the crowd), recruited on-demand and working synchronously together to complete tasks in real-time. The resulting model r...

Crowd-Sourcing Design: Sketch Minimization using Crowds for Feedback

Design tasks are notoriously difficult, because success is defined by the perception of the target audience, whose feedback is usually not available during design stages. Commonly, design is performed by professionals who have specific domain knowledge (i.e., an intuitive understanding of the implicit requirements of the task) and do not need the feedback of the perception of the viewers during...

Plato and Innatism

Plato and Innatism

Pleasure and Illusion in Plato

Plato links pleasure with illusion, and this link explains his rejection of the view that all desires are rational desires for the good. The Protagoras and Gorgias show connections between pleasure and illusion; the Republic develops these into a psychological theory. One part of the soul is not only prone to illusions, but also incapable of the kind of reasoning that can dispel them. Pleasure ...