apokrisis

It generated pithy quotes such as…. If say you were just a grad student looking to publish, imagine going on this wending conversation which starts wi...

That was a fun read. So it makes LLMs the new interactive textbook? Who would buy a real textbook when you can scrape all of them for nothing in this ...

Just click the link I provided,

Not always offended, but puzzled that you would be resistant to learning of the philosophers and scientists already saying much the same thing in a mo...

But is there a point to this other than to join some imagined club of sophisticated thought? Sure it is great to launch into the usual Grand Tour of t...

But what if we were already the monster 1.0 in the womb of a Mother Earth when we emerged as the accelerationist enterprise of the Industrial Revoluti...

It’s a charming thought. But life and mind are an algorithm in being dissipative structure. Something that had to emerge under the Second Law of Therm...

Getting back to the greenie issues, the latest state of the play report on AI says what is really top of mind is building enough new power plants to k...

Don’t worry about being replaced. Worry about what clever humans will do if allowed to dumb their own lives down. Imagine I could offer you a prototyp...

Sadly so. But also, you could look on the sunny side. AI scrapes PF along with the rest. My own opinions are being quoted back to me as a source on my...

What worries me is that the urge to fight injustice moves out of the real world and into the realm of social media. It was easy to be the young and an...

Too many rewards bring with it the logical corollary of too many risks. If you can win, you could also lose. So the question is whether risk and rewar...

Or indeed there is the simpler rebuttal available if – as I do – you accept Charlie Lineweaver as providing the most up to date big picture view of th...

Well, it certainly illustrates the idiocy of extrapolating the wrong maths. One could start by considering the role that Maxwell’s Demon has played in...

This is just natural dialectic logic at work. Any move has to arise in the context of the counter move being possible. If you turn left, then you coul...

The relation would have to be an inverse one to connect what is local to what is global. And indeed, what is past and what is future. If the current s...

Yeah. And I asked YOU why do you need to know? What’s your actual thesis here and what level of answer could you indeed follow? The thread appeared to...

Do you say it won’t or do you say it will? And on what grounds for either alternative. If you just want to ask vague questions, let a chatbot be your ...

Or true vagueness. True Apeiron. True Ungrund. And indeed true Chaos if you go right back to Hesiod. And then, in jargon terms, there is modern maths ...

Well non-extensive entropy, perhaps. Tsallis entropy rather than Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy. And still a touchy issue. Explain further. The Universe is o...

Yep. But you see how the urge to collapse the holism of holography to some new form of reductionism shows itself once again. A Bayseian prior that mos...

Randomness – as physical degrees of freedom or a count of entropy content – only exists within a context of constraint. A system must be closed and th...

Yes. You measure your worth in mentions. What could be more cringe? Exactly. Which was the point. :up: There were the Bayesian priors. And they could ...

A pinch and a punch and no returns, eh. :up:

Why not just say what is really bothering you? :grin:

By page 4, the subject had switched to abduction.

Hume is deeply uninteresting. He says something obvious about cognition. It is modelling. And now we can move along swiftly. Peirce gets us back to on...

And what prevents deduction moving from the general to the particular? Or induction moving from the particular to the general? And so the pincer movem...

That's not it at all. Vagueness comes before counterfactuality. Ambiguity is what counterfactually intends to clean up. We are requiring of ourselves ...

When you face a lumpen realist, there is no harm in shaking up their presuppositions with a dose of what seems like idealism. The lumpen realist has t...

So your reminder for this morning. As you do tend to slither away. We are going with your suggestion that the unexpected starts the game. And so the q...

Or that you finally agree with them. For the more technical version of this thesis on the emergence of biosemiosis. The evolution of matter with an or...

Your interest is reward enough. :up:

Yep. So this is why I point to the way that the growing block universe has to have a present moment structure that is complex and not simple. The base...

Or is it that the pool has its shallow end yet also its deep end. Then even its paddling pool. If I am obscure then you are…?

You claimed to be responding to my jest… …with… So forgive me if that came across as unhelpful twaddle. What did you really mean to say and do you thi...

Zing!!!!

I appreciate your effort. But as a zinger, it’s a complete fail. Take some pride in your work if you want to wound.

Look at the big sook. Not one reply to any point I have made. Just the usual posturing and deflection.

Who gives a fuck about validity. Pragmatism is about being happy that reasoning can be useful. What matters is defining reason in a reasonable fashion...

You seemed to want to safely distance yourself from that. OK. So what do you deduce from the unexpected? How is the sudden need for an explanation als...

Nah. We are talking science here. You have to sound reasonable when you make your grant application. You have to offer a causal explanation that would...

Nope. Even if you feel Peirce’s account to be inadequate, you have to offer something better or there’s nothing to discuss. So keep on ducking and dod...

So how do you say a process of scientific inquiry normally begins?

Strawman. It is a necessary part of a logic of science. The bit that gets the game of deduction and inductive confirmation started. You seem to be ver...

In what ways are you thinking? What are good examples of LLMs that are transforming the productivity of the world? There will be some undoubtedly. But...

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Whatever happened to the principle of charity I wonder? So just the usual game of duck and dodge. :up:

Does what you pay to use it even cover the price of the electricity consumed at the datacentre? Or make up for the social and environmental costs of t...

By “we”, you mean you. You can’t admit in public to your errors of thought. And so you must thus construct a world in which I am in the wrong for most...