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There are plenty of anonymous truths. Euclid probably didn't actually invent geometry, he probably compiled many sources to compose the Elements. Depending whic
by xamuel 7y ago
There are plenty of anonymous truths. Euclid probably didn't actually invent geometry, he probably compiled many sources to compose the Elements. Depending which scholars you ask, half or more of The Bible is either totally anonymous (e.g. the Book of Hebrews) or attributed to authors who didn't actually write it (e.g. Deuteronomy, which Moses would have to have predicted his own death in order to finish). More recently there's the Bitcoin Whitepaper published under a pseudonym.
"Objective" doesn't imply "simple", the fact that so-called AI can't produce great literature is an indictment against the marketers calling it AI, not against great literature.
- apocalypstyx 7y agoEuclid - a name, along with Newton, Einstein, etc. We don't say Geometry Theta, we say Euclidean Geometry, Newtonian physics, etc. Why speak of them at all? Why not the ideas divorced from the men (and the few women)? The Bible - Promulgated mainly (for the most substantial part of its history) by those contending its ultimate authorship lay with God. And any appellation of greater significance would likely prove difficult to procure. >Bitcoin Whitepaper published under a pseudonym. Is this now Milton's competition? > "Objective" doesn't imply "simple" Yet simple enough to be described surely, to be circumscribed with pen and paper, surely, because if not, how is it known to be such? Or do we accept as fact the intuitions of those who had nothing more? And if it is not the name that stands predominant, why should we fear veritas ex machina?