Computer science recycles key philosophical terms with similar but different meanings. This causes systematic patterns of confusion for CS people thinking about philosophy.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/1042660178796142592 …
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I knew this would trigger you :)
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Pathetically predictable
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Computers don't exactly "conform" to logic, they create artificial subuniverses where logic applies, then try to colonize the rest of reality from that power base. -
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Which is why the history of computation is so entwined with the history of bureaucracy.
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@threadreaderapp unroll pls I am in software, but I intuitively have the less rigorous CS way of understanding the word "abstraction" -
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Saluti you can read it here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1042681620820570112.html … See you soon.
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“Representation” and “reference” are other major trouble sources. In CS, each is a relationship between perfectly crisp software things; elsewhere, at least one end of the relationship is nebulous, in the world.
BCS discusses in this:
Mathematical logic was invented to eliminate all nebulosity; it conclusively failed. But computers are logic made flesh; as a consolation prize, we got the whole contemporary world out of logicism’s failure.
Gregory Chaitin’s delightful explanation:
Hardcore rationalism makes natural sense to people with computer science backgrounds. What would the world have to be like for rationalism to be true of it? It would need to conform perfectly to some set of rules—as software does, and practically nothing else can.
Given how utterly unlike reality logic is, it’s astonishing that we were able to build devices that conform to it so precisely. But, for many decades, we did devote most of the time of the smartest people in the world, plus trillions of dollars, to the effort.