"Live players" vs. "Dead players" (THREAD)
Since reading this distinction two weeks ago, I've thought about it more or less every day. It's a simple distinction, but it explains so much.
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Interesting. I came up with an isomorphic concept for my next book. Here’s my email note to myself on that:
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Not a new idea really. Long-running subfield of AI/expert systems (GOFAI though, not new-fangled deep learning)
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I’m gonna need that unpacked a little (or a lot)... but I imagine that’s what the book is for?
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tldr: logical positivism is just wrong. Falsificationism is not even wrong, but gestures at an adjacent sound epistemolgy: a truth is like a log of experimental tinkering with an idea. There’s no such thing as “falsifiable in principle”. You’re either tweaking it or it’s dead.
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Can you remember when you started using "isomorphic" in this context? I've been going crazy trying to find early uses. Any pointers?
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There's an old pedagogy/mental models example about people realizing they already know how to solve a problem, if they generalize models across specific domains. I think I caught isomorphic models from that.
Can't find it any more though. 
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I've always used it since I first learned the concept in math class in the 90s and I sense the audience has enough others who grok it
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