I'm not clear on what it would mean for the principle of maximum entropy to have a truth value.
been thinking about math again and here's a math hot take for you: the principle of maximum entropy is false
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Like I can see what it would mean for it to be a good idea or a bad idea, but it's more of a model selection heuristic than a statement of fact.
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will probably elaborate on this in a blog post, slightly too long for twitter
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False is okay. It only needs to be proto-true.
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Yep, a lot of people never really understand entropy
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This is a bold claim with profound implications I disagree with. I loosely associate this principle with Godel's Incomp Theorem. Once you grant belief to statements of less-than-max entropy you believe to be true, you start to let in falsehoods too
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