"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.https://medium.com/@samo.burja/live-versus-dead-players-2b24f6e9eae2 …
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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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'Truth is a maintenance problem' reminds me of this
@SamHarrisOrg quote:pic.twitter.com/ycgxBEPzM7
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Not a new idea really. Long-running subfield of AI/expert systems (GOFAI though, not new-fangled deep learning)https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00155580 …
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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?https://twitter.com/daniel_egan/status/1099771033144430593?s=21 …
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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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