@Plinz I used to have a "but then what?" reaction to this kind of stark denial, & now don't, but struggling to articulate the difference.
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@FrameOfStack If no truth then what? — More or less suitable (consistent, stable, sparse, relevant, efficient...) encoding.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Plinz Taking the machine learning catch phrase "there are no correct models, only useful models" seriously1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Plinz And what concept of "truth" this offers (essentially, "low generalization error") is bound up with the individual, not universal.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FrameOfStack Your teacher may still be more correct than you1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Plinz Utility of encoding has to be bound up to a data stream being encoded, right? Universal truth is evidence&investigation independent2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FrameOfStack I am not sure what you just tried to compress in 140 chars1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@FrameOfStack Au contraire, there is _only_ access to the world as a data stream
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@FrameOfStack There is no objective access to anything but mathematics1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 2 more replies
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