“Philosophy of computation: meaning, mechanism, mystery” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USF1H70bRl0 … Basis of my tweets yesterday about computers & social facts
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Brian Smith & I overlapped when doing our PhDs at the MIT AI Lab. This lecture is 100% woo-free; he knows theory of computation completely.
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Brian Smith’s _On the Origin of Objects_ is a profound work that has deeply influenced me:http://amzn.to/2r5kCst
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Smith’s point: if we mainly use computers to mean things (as we do), a theoretical account that ignores meaning is woefully inadequate.
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The field we call “theory of computation” is incredibly valuable; I wish more people knew it. It is not a theory of computers in practice.
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My draft I quoted yesterday has a more practical orientation than Smith’s:
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How can understanding computers as meaning-makers improve software design and engineering in practice? For fun and profit!
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I think it could also improve understanding of human behavior, such as E.T.Jaynes did in 'logic of science' (probability theory) -
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