@KevinSimler they rely on co-workers, who share techniques, tricks, quick fixes, documentation errors, and most importantly, “war stories”
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 3. It is a physical process. Computers and other non-humans can (theoretically) generate knowledge too.
@sarahdoingthing @Meaningness 3... E.g. natural selection is a knowledge-generating process, encoding its knowledge in genomes.
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 4. The most important/broadest thing to say about this process is that it works by conjectures & falsification -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 4... In other words, the only way to get knowledge is to weed out non-knowledge, i.e., ideas that don't work -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 5. Whenever a system is "learning," this kind of trial&error must be occurring (at some level of description) -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 5... even if there are other ways to describe what's happening (e.g. phenomenologically). - 8 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing yikes, dense! good point that aboutness-extraction gets wonky because "partners have some shared and some competing goals" - 2 more replies
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