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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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    1/6 Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from economics 2/6 Sufficiently institutionalized economics is indistinguishable from religion 3/6 Sufficiently conservative religion is indistinguishable from politics ...

    10:12 AM - 21 Nov 2020
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        4/6 Sufficiently disinterested politics is indistinguishable from philosophy 5/6 Sufficiently thoughtful philosophy is indistinguishable from instrument-making 6/6 Sufficiently clever instrument-making is indistinguishable from science This is Clarke’s Circle of Life of Mind

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        My Friday morning thought* * took my Saturday yesterday so it’s Friday on my timeline todaypic.twitter.com/R8jCl6Bb56

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        Maybe I’ll call this the Mind Mansion instead of Circle of Life of Mind. Like the House of Quality

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        Oh look I can superimpose a good 2x2 here. There’s always a 2x2 if you look hard enough.pic.twitter.com/ECtGYLsc7y

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        Basically trying to tease apart what instruments do from mere iterative refinement of thoughts.pic.twitter.com/mV5kFICzZF

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        OODA loops govern the transition between closed-would iteration with REPL (read-eval-print loop) and open-world iteration with POHL (probe-observe hypothesize loop). Basically when to open up your model rather than merely trying to debug it.

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      8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        There is a qualitative difference between epistemic and ontological feedback. Achieving ontological expansion while trying to debug a model is rare. Eg: Dirac concluding antiparticles must exist from symmetries in equations being studied in a math REPL.

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      9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        Math is interestingly on the edge between closed and open world. You can make random unexpected ontological discoveries (eg Mandelbrot set) while operating within what feels like a closed world.

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      10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        POHLs and instruments are “real world” in a way REPLs are not. They embody boundary intelligence as opposed to interior. Cfhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/915302752720322560?s=21 …

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        1/ I'd like to make up a theory of intelligence based on a 2-element ontology: boundary and interior intelligence
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      11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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        Time is the essential dimension separating closed and open worlds. Roughly in open worlds you must pay a price in proportion to the degree you’re not operating in real time. This is especially clear with simulations. Real-time sims race against whatever they are modeling.

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