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Prior to Euclid people seemed to be concerned with valid arguments. Mathematical proofs are limited to true or false statements. Math is great when modeling phy
by keithalewis 3y ago
Prior to Euclid people seemed to be concerned with valid arguments. Mathematical proofs are limited to true or false statements. Math is great when modeling physics, but quite lacking when applied to other human endeavours.
- zmgsabst 3y agoFacebook disagrees: Math lets them manipulate your emotions on behalf of advertisers and spy agencies, alike. As does Midjourney: Math lets them turn a loose description into a high quality picture of that scene.
- DiscourseFan 3y agoI don't think its useful to refer to every symbolic structure that people employ to build machines as "math." There is more to Facebook and Midjourney than the equations used to represent their operation.
- zmgsabst 3y agoComputers compute — they’re a replacement for people doing arithmetic on paper forms. Fundamentally, there’s a mathematical representation of their computational system. Also, you admit that equations are driving the core of both systems I described: - algorithmic manipulation - SD images
- DiscourseFan 3y ago>equations are driving the core of both systems I described Everything in society uses symbolic representation, but is not driven by symbolic representation, but the people who create those representations.