COUNTER ARGUMENT: The ‘olympic medal problem’ with larger, wealthier countries originates with more national opportunities to attract talent, whereas smaller countries have fewer such opportunities. Secondly, opportunities, especially economic, often require scale, and athleticism generally requires fewer inputs and smaller organizations. As such the olympics create higher selection pressure in favor of talent in smaller countries producing the observed ratio of medals to population. So the ratio of opportunity to population is ‘as expected’. And yes we should pay attention to those small countries and credit them accordingly because after all, we are lionizing sport. 😉
That’s correct. The universal grammar is “continuous recursive disambiguation” which is of course the universal logic of the universe as well. The variations within that universal grammar are limited by human cognitive capacity at prediction – which is why we can construct longer sentences of deeper complexity as we age and learn.
So, there is one law to the universe, and grammar is an application of that law. The permutations possible with vocalizations, the noun (state), verb (action), qualifiers (adverbs, adjectives, pronouns), and agreement (comprehensible/not, good/bad, agree/not, true/false, etc) can be ordered various ways but they are consistent in dimensions of representation and cumulatively must satisfy continuous recursive disambiguation for communication by serial speech or symbol to function.
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Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same “universal geometry” of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model’s embeddings without seeing the original text. Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike.
Convergence to representational commensurability must occur when using abstract representation (N-dimensional networks) – humans are marginally indifferent in sense perception – and language must be accessible across the sex (responsibility), class (genetic load) and intelligence (neotenic development) spectra. Many ‘discoveries’ in AI are only discoveries of consistency and correspondence with the operational model of the brain discovered by neuroscience. Many problems with neuroscience emerge from failing to produce an operational (what) model of the brain instead of a neurochemical (why). Turns out the nerve, neuron, neural microcolum, neural column, region, hemisphere, network organization of the brain is pretty simple in the aggregate even if complex out of sheer numbers – just like parameters in our AI neural networks.
OBVIOUS. Deterministic right? If all experience is reducible to disambiguation of sense perception, and all language is reducible to those those disambiguations, and inter-language commensurability in representationalism using n-dimensional relations, then we should see the convergence of concepts in the mind, in language, just as we do in the sciences and the grammars – with ‘sounds’ that encode those concepts the only variation. ie: “Convergence”.
Participation in a Polity is voluntary. Can’t have demand for reciprocity without duty. Can’t have duty without joining polity. Duty is therefore voluntary.
Those numbers look low to me, so I would need an explanation of their constitution (What went into them). However, at current debt and spending levels it is entirely possible these numbers are correct.
–“Unless taxes are voluntary, it can’t strictly adhere to reciprocity.”– A common mistake derived from Libertarian fallacy. Reciprocity is demanded by non-exclusion from (meaning “inclusion in”) the polity. Taxes that produce a common, are not irreciprocal, and satisfy concurrency are a cost of inclusion in the polity by defense against free riding (which is an irreciprocity) by evasion of those costs. We can enumerate the differences by natural inclusion in a tribe vs artificial inclusion in a pseudo-tribe: polity. I suspect you’re applying the intuition of a natural involuntary inclusion (tribe) with an unnatural voluntary inclusion (polity). … Again, manifesting (Jewish Separatist) libertarian reasoning. The individual does not have the choice of defecting from the costs of the polity by any means other than exit from the benefits of the polity. And in a world of scarce non-polities that’s rather challenging