emmender1

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by emmender1 3y ago
thanks for taking the time to elaborate. I have to admit, i dont understand it intuitively, but it is food for reflection.
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by emmender1 3y ago
thanks ! that the world could be modal is a revelation to me, as i viewed it as deterministic unfolding interrelated events - the links, and material are nice for me to sit back and reflect. using chatgpt as the philosopher's assistant
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by emmender1 3y ago
wow @mjburgess you need to elaborate on your theory of knowledge/concept formation as I have not seen it explained anywhere else in this manner. particularly: "Absent this direct, immediate, causal, certain knowledge of our own bo
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by emmender1 3y ago
a very small percentage of humans make big advances. think euclid, newton, einstein. the rest of us squawk memes on hacker news. calculators can do better on arithmetic than all humans, does that make them smarter ?
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by emmender1 3y ago
indeed, the scientific method is an alien language to most of us. the fact that the earth revolves around the sun is commonly accepted today.. but it took thousands of years of debate to arrive at that discovery. I can bet that the average
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by emmender1 3y ago
probably as bad is the "architecture" of AI that a16z put out... https://a16z.com/2023/06/20/emerging-architectures-for-llm-a... VCs are late to the AI game.. and are trying to stay relevant with th
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by emmender1 3y ago
This is my gripe with high school (and college) education.. knowledge which took hundreds of years to discover is imparted in capsules to students - the history of how knowledge was discovered is likely more important and interesting to lea
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by emmender1 3y ago
for all of his mathematical , logistical prowess, he should have focused his attention on the bigger casino: the stock market. He would have found far easier pickings.
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by emmender1 3y ago
this is so true... brilliantly put. However, even after the mental barrier is removed - Majority of us do not have the motivation to actualize our visions even after we know and believe that they are feasible. I suspect that it takes a spec