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If mind was random, people would miscalculate 1+1 with 50% probability. So earth might be flat, but it's unlikely.
by GoblinSlayer 1mo ago
If mind was random, people would miscalculate 1+1 with 50% probability. So earth might be flat, but it's unlikely.
- yreg 1mo ago> If mind was random, people would miscalculate 1+1 with 50% probability. That does not follow at all.
- GoblinSlayer 1mo agoMiscalculation doesn't follow from randomness?
- yreg 1mo agoIf you run an LLM (with temp >0) and use a true random generator for seeds, it will still tell you 1+1 is 2.
- GoblinSlayer 1mo agoYou mean mind is deterministic and cancels all noise? Then what quantum physics would do there?
- yreg 1mo agoYou don't need to cancel all the noise to solve 1+1 correctly. The model in the example is non-deterministic. I don't know Penrose's view deeply enough to defend it further (view which I for the record do not share).
- GoblinSlayer 1mo agoHe's just rambling.
- j16sdiz 1mo agoWhere did the 50% came from?! Many phenomenon emerge from randomness with very high probability just because the law of large number.
- GoblinSlayer 1mo agoIt's statistics that emerges with very high probability due to the law of large numbers. If you calculate 1+1=2 with 100% probability, then quantum physics doesn't meaningfully participate in your reasoning, not more than brownian motion.