If you tend to think "Pomo" is the name for Cathedral-legitimated psychosis, this probably won't change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUs6_Kcfieg …
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Replying to @Outsideness
A frustrating thing about watching that video -- common to many such discussions -- is that JR immediately tries to confront TR with facts
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @Outsideness
A more interesting approach would be to stay at a level of abstraction and to inquire more about TR's epistemology
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @Outsideness
"Okay, so you think biological sex is an 'invented' category. Hmm. Are all categories invented or are there any 'natural' categories?"
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"If all categories are invented, why do humans like to invent them? The elephant seals probably don't invent a lot of categories -- why us?"
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"Is it perhaps that some categories are useful to understanding the world and moving around in it as a Homo sapiens, a thinking human?"
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"If some categories are useful to Homo sapiens who invented a whole system of them (called 'language'), what makes a category useful?"
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"Are categories useful when they precisely correlate with some underlying reality, and if so, how strong should the correlation be?"
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"Should it be R-squared = 1.0 or R-squared = 0.99 or is R-squared 0.95 sufficient? At which R-squared level does a category become useful?"
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"If we programmed a robot that didn't try to correlate (i.e. map) external world to an internal representation, would it be successful?"
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This question explains why ruthless capitalistic robot war is actually the only way we're going to get at the truth.
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