3 ms·

Even an LLM couldn’t generate this.

illuminant 2y ago
Information is the removal of uncertainty, if it does not remove uncertainty it is not information. Uncertainty is the soft synonym for entropy. Entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential. It is not that Truth is impossible to find, it is that undeceiving the self is difficult. Undeceive yourself of your own words if you will find something you have not anticipated.
- maxbond 2y ago
  What about if I think I know something and then realize I don't? Didn't I receive information that increased my uncertainty?
  - illuminant 2y ago
    When you do a math or logic problem you would intuitively use parentheses, allowing the problem to be split into scopes. Use parentheses in your mind and then regard where uncertainty is increased and where it is decreased. In nearly every circumstance, new information will generate MORE questions. To the untrained mind this may sound like more uncertainty, however in actuality you did not know what questions to ask until some preliminary uncertainty was resolved. For one scope, uncertainty is resolved, in doing so new domains are revealed. Uncertainty (or information for that matter) isn't a lump sum that grows or shrinks. One question is resolved revealing more separate and further uncertainties, which are very specific and reduced from chaotic infinity by some resolve . In this case, realizing you didn't actually know that "something" to begin with. The tendency to jumble these delicate distinctions into a single glob of unknowns obfuscates otherwise simple (however numerous) truths. And by "truth" I mean, anything consistent with existential reality.
maxbond 2y ago
It's an interesting perspective. I understand that the language choices they made were strong and thus not for everyone, but I don't see a reason to be rude about it. If it didn't make any sense to you it's probably because you didn't find it worth your time to parse it out, or similarly that there was unfamiliar terminology you didn't judge it worth your time to look up. That's fine, but that's a choice you made, no sense blaming them for it.

Information is the removal of uncertainty, if it does not remove uncertainty it is not information. Uncertainty is the soft synonym for entropy. Entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential. It is not that Truth is impossible to find, it is that undeceiving the self is difficult. Undeceive yourself of your own words if you will find something you have not anticipated.

maxbond 2y ago
What about if I think I know something and then realize I don't? Didn't I receive information that increased my uncertainty?
- illuminant 2y ago
  When you do a math or logic problem you would intuitively use parentheses, allowing the problem to be split into scopes. Use parentheses in your mind and then regard where uncertainty is increased and where it is decreased. In nearly every circumstance, new information will generate MORE questions. To the untrained mind this may sound like more uncertainty, however in actuality you did not know what questions to ask until some preliminary uncertainty was resolved. For one scope, uncertainty is resolved, in doing so new domains are revealed. Uncertainty (or information for that matter) isn't a lump sum that grows or shrinks. One question is resolved revealing more separate and further uncertainties, which are very specific and reduced from chaotic infinity by some resolve . In this case, realizing you didn't actually know that "something" to begin with. The tendency to jumble these delicate distinctions into a single glob of unknowns obfuscates otherwise simple (however numerous) truths. And by "truth" I mean, anything consistent with existential reality.

maxbond 2y ago

It's an interesting perspective. I understand that the language choices they made were strong and thus not for everyone, but I don't see a reason to be rude about it. If it didn't make any sense to you it's probably because you didn't find it worth your time to parse it out, or similarly that there was unfamiliar terminology you didn't judge it worth your time to look up. That's fine, but that's a choice you made, no sense blaming them for it.