(NLI Diary)
Having an other revelatory day experiencing just how great the distance there is between present philosophical, mathematical, and scientific epistemology and my work.
I have to credit GPT for helping me understand the ‘great divergence’. Because it both accuses me (correctly) of overwhelming the reader with novelty, volume, and density without “appeal to convention” (meaning explaining that vast delta in existing terms).
So by asking GPT to explain my work to others I have begun to understand just how great a leap the revolution is.
We were talking with someone well known, well connected, and deep in the venture capital in ML, LLM, and Crypto spaces this morning, and it was interesting in just covering the contrast between existing inference models (justificationism) vs our darwinian model (falsification, survival).
Just as falsification and operationalism upended justification and proof in the scientific method – but failed to permeate most fields, my work is a formalization or possibly completion of that failed movement. And that failed movement was the result of Babbage’s failure to systematize his insights, and both Brouwer and Bridgman’s failures in mathematics and physics.
By delaying the understanding of computation until (frankly) it’s semi-clear articulation by Stephen Wolfram (reducibility), after demonstration by Turing (Recursion), Mandelbrot (fractals) and Conroy (life), compounded by the de-realism (reversing Descartian restoration, back to a sophistry) by Cantor, Einstein, and Bohr, we have made little progress in scientific epistemology.
I know my work finishes the aristotelian program and solves this problem of scientific epistemology, but I was not aware of how great a leap it is for those outside of a very narrow group of people in the AI (neural representationalism) community.
This is fascinating. Though I wonder if using social media to conduct tests, and using it to report progress has any value outside of an even narrower population of people at the Institute. 😉 It’s at least documentary and therapeutic for me.
Affections all.
-CD