Every science is a degenerate habit of thought. Magical thinking is the creative discipline of resisting the lure of that degeneracy. The best way to do that is to convince yourself that science has a general method to it. Methodicity is actually the mark of magical thinking.
-
-
You’re saying following a repetitive method helps you avoid any “local maxima” of compression?
-
No, I’m saying almost the exact opposite. Optimization is a dangerous metaphor to use in computability theory though. The underlying space is not well-behaved enough. I would not try to understand this idea in optimization terms.
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.