Will probably have to be a long and difficult post. Attempt in a tweet:
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Replying to @Meaningness @niftierideology
Representation and reality are sufficiently dissimilar in kind that the ideal of isomorphism is irrelevant & misleading.
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Replying to @Meaningness
What does getting this wrong entail? Derailing AI research or failing in many other disciplines?
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Replying to @niftierideology
Getting clear about this is an enabling technology for “meta-rationality” or “stage 5”: understanding how >
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Replying to @Meaningness @niftierideology
all systems are qualitatively inaccurate, not just quantitatively.
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So, does this imply that one needs to be able to choose the right kind of map (representation) for any given problem domain?
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Replying to @niftierideology
Yes, but it also implies that no representation is actually qualitatively accurate for its domain, either.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Doesn't that depend on the complexity of the domain? E.g. tic-tac-toe board probably has accurate reps. Sorry if pedantic
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Replying to @niftierideology
yes, that’s right. Ttt is basically math, and math is the exception here
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Replying to @Meaningness
Would you agree that a quark-by-quark representation of the universe could be true, even if it was useless for cognition?
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uh… I guess… Where would you put it?
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Replying to @Meaningness
It's obviously not possible to actually have this. I'm just trying to see if we have similar ontologies, I guess.
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Replying to @niftierideology
Not sure! I’m skeptical of impossible things (like full representation of quantum universe) as ideals.
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