The common sense problem of evil arises when people see the world as unjustifiably bad (cf. Gellman 1992).
This knapsack problem is the common sense problem of determining the number of vehicles of each capacity to transport all the passengers at a minimum cost by ignoring the subset-vehicle assignments.
But this seems irrelevant, for the spectrum of truly horrendous evils is broad enough that the impression of unjustifiability can be generated from the lower end of the spectrum, leaving instances at the higher end as proof that we can conceive of worse evils than those minimally sufficient for generating the common sense problem of evil.
In this form, the employee transporting problem is reduced to the common sense problem of determining the number of vehicles of each capacity to transport all the passengers at a minimum cost provided that the distance (time) of any route to a subset of destinations does not exceed a predetermined limit without any consideration of routing and vehicle-subset assignments.
Over the last two years, the pollsters Stan Greenberg, Celinda Lake, and I tested messages with thousands of voters, and what all but the most ideological voters said in dozens of ways was that they wanted pragmatic, "common sense," problem-solving government, not symbolic politics and ideological inflexibility.
Their biggest fear is that a mayor who built a reputation as an anti-politician and common-sense problem-solver will appear self-serving and power-hungry.
It might be obvious to you, but what sounds revolutionary to many in Washington is just called "common-sense problem solving" here.
Like any realistic common sense reasoning problem, the Frame Problem is open-ended, and can depend on a wide variety of circumstances.
But the trends I have been discussing show that formalization of even moderate-sized realistic common sense reasoning problems is not merely an art.
This means not being afraid to tackle the big questions -- common sense, knowledge, problem solving, story understanding, vision". Born in Dehradun, India, Singh grew up in Canada, and earned his S.B. and M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1998.
