Life is highly non-ergodic, so by default you should assume that what you learned from your own past won’t help you in your own future
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What if I learnt that life is non-ergodic in the past? Does that mean life is ergodic in the future? Tell me. Tell me if you have guts.
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. bit.ly/cryIst
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In a complex system, you can't even learn from your own mistakes.
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But you can learn from the mistakes of others (who are similar to you, in the past)
That's the ergodicity take for conservatism I suppose
Otoh the world is changing so fast ancestor wisdom may not lose relevance
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Then what good is the AI simulation in our minds if it can’t predict? And how did it get us this far? Or are these separate issues? Genuinely interested in your take.
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What does this accomplish?
I'll stick with empiricism until something better comes along. #Satisficing
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