Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res
Re: Daniel Everett DE: I am trying to represent two readings of the three juxtaposed sentences in English. The first reading is that the judge and the jury both know that Malcolm is guilty. The...
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves … Julius Caesar • 1.2.141–142 Signs have a power to inform, to lead our thoughts and thus our actions in accord with reality, to make...
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Another passage from Russell further illustrates what I see as a critical juncture in his thought. The graph-theoretic figure he uses in analyzing a complex of logical relationships brings him to the...
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In the passage quoted in the previous post Bertrand Russell addresses the question, “What is the logical structure of the fact which consists in a given subject understanding a given proposition?” and...
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Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Flashback Re: FB Comment • Daniel Everett Dan Everett commented on my post about Russell’s question, “How shall we describe the...
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Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Flashback Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 4 A quick review of the highlights so far, and then I’ll continue from the standpoint...
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Re: Mathstodon • Nicole Rust NR: Computations or Processes — How do you think about the building blocks of the brain? I keep coming back to this thread about levels, along with others on the related...
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Re: Scott Aaronson • Should GPT Exist? • My Comment The more fundamental problem I see here is the failure to grasp the nature of the task at hand, and this I attribute not to a program but to its...
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Re: Terry Tao • PCAST Working Group on Generative AI Invites Public Input My Comment — I think a lot of people who’ve been working all along on AI, intelligent systems, and computational extensions of...
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Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 2 Re: Mathstodon • Joeri Sebrechts JS: That’s not how it works. The model lacks agency. It is a machine whose gears are cranked by the user’s prompt. It can...
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