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For example I can say that if I put a fraction into the cosine function, it gives me "the angle". I'm on the way towards true understanding, but witho...

My question isn't a question of curiosity, it's a question of meaning. It's not meaningful for you to say e equals MC squared if you don't know what i...

then I would giggle cause that's silly

I agree that is true, but I don't pretend to grasp the meaning. It's true to me in the same way that is true to that kid that his dad is Fargle.

you're the one who made the statement that it's true. You ought to know my dude

I guess as long as you allow for an implicit scaling factor. e equal S mc2. Without a scaling factor, it's the wrong answer.

One of the answers you actually could have given that would have been reasonable, but which you neglected, would have been to specify units. Without u...

I'm not the one claiming to understand it so I wouldn't know. Any truth value I put in e equal mc2 is based on trust that people who do understand it ...

That's what we call a little bit of humor. Do you know what it means to multiply a mass by a speed, twice? What does it mean? Not numerically, concept...

I tried to ask chat gpt, what does it mean to multiply mass by a speed and then by a speed again? Chat gpt gave a very illuminating answer:

So you know what it means to multiply a mass by a speed, twice? Can you explain it to me? I know what it means to multiply a Time by a Speed. If you h...

Right, and you could also believe that ???? has been corroborated many times. You could even believe that without understanding what ???? means. You c...

Did you read the rest of that post?

yes, because the first premise wasn't one of my premises. I'm also not making an argument so much as just spinning ideas.

Not entirely, no, but it seems to me that someone who can't tell me what it means to multiply mass by a speed would have a hard time testing if multip...

I think you understand all the symbols in isolation, and you understand the mathematical operations involved from a numerical perspective - you know g...

PS I'm actually not trying to shame you. If you don't fully understand what it means to multiply mass by a speed, that's fine, that opens up a really ...

Okay, what's it's actual meaning? What does it mean for energy to equal mass times the speed of light squared? What does it mean to multiply mass time...

Right, so you don't want to accept the truth of something you don't understand. Interesting. So when I asked you, "what does it mean to say e = mc2 is...

my bad. I didn't notice that lol

I'm going to give you a bunch of symbols that, presumably, you don't understand. Your first instruction is to NOT LOOK THEM UP. Okay? Don't google, do...

I actually have an interesting experiment to kind of get at what I'm saying here, if you're interested to learn what I mean. You want to play along an...

nope. I simply asked what he means. I'm not saying "there is no meaning". I AM saying, "IF there is no understood meaning of e = mc2 THEN there is no ...

So saying "it's true" just means "I think someone else has proven it"? There's no requirement for understanding? Even if they have no idea whatsoever ...

Right, but if I said "Garbledy bombley goo" and then later said "That statement is true"... what would that mean to think it's true? You know what I m...

What do you mean when you say you think it's "true"?

great answer

But we do know they can be implemented in a physical world-modelling machine, because we've built physical world-modelling machines that have doubts.

no, it shows instead that doubts are a part of an LLM, and we know that LLMs are implemented physically, on physical machinery, undergoing physical pr...

Neural nets - as in, things like Chat GPT - have doubts. They have ways of representing internal confidence levels about their models about the data t...

What makes you so sure "options" are ontologically real things, and not just a feature of maps rather than a feature of territories? And if options AR...

you're not comfortable in the language which is why you trip up so much in basic communication about logic. There's nothing to say to you. You don't u...

mate what the fuck are you talking about? What does this mean? Have you lost your mind? You are so far out of touch with the English language that we ...

I don't think I said that. Here's the quote of mine I managed to find: "It's easy to make a paradox out of false statements. Corvus is a human and he'...

And you were insisting everyone else was crazy except you. No! Corvus must be right! It must be logical to deny the antecedent! Yeah, I'll take the cr...

Your track record with basic logical errors has everything to do with that. I recall, perhaps you've forgotten.

Mr denying the antecedent, I think I agree.

nah, you don't have the best track record with basic logic and I don't think you're doing a great job of it here. Prove there's the contradiction you ...

I don't think anything yous aid is clear at this point.

You say "How could we have a single thought, knowing that all that exists is matter and forces?" As if you know of some other way to have a single tho...

I have no idea what you're talking about

how could we have a single thought period?

How is it a strawman? You literally said "The morning star and evening star both refer to Venus."

Territory is the shit that exists. Map is a representation of the shit that exists.

There are maps, and there are territories. Our brain is a territory in itself, but it's a territory which contains maps of other territories. Those ma...

They aren't all simultaneously true. "The reason that the Morning star is morning star is because it is only visible in the mornings. But the reason t...

I don't understand why there's a problem to think about at all. Our brain doesn't have direct access to all the knowledge of the world. Our brains bui...

The way you phrased it, "isn't it a tautalogy but also a contradiction", makes it sound like you think it's a contradiction. Do you not? I don't. I do...

what makes it a contradiction?

I think an interesting question is, where does quantum randomness come from? There are a few interesting options, but one option in particular I perso...