Theme: Operationalism

  • Very close to the right answer. I’ve explained this in the past that we need a u

    Very close to the right answer. I’ve explained this in the past that we need a unit of measurement equal to say a calorie, in order to produce roughly empirical measures of cognitive processes. And we will discover that only when we have discovered it in AI.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-18 16:56:52 UTC

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  • RT @CDismal18229: @curtdoolittle Platonism is arguably the most un-operational p

    RT @CDismal18229: @curtdoolittle Platonism is arguably the most un-operational philosophical framework ever created. Ughh


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-17 14:24:40 UTC

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  • (As I’m sure JFG would also say, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science isn’t that c

    (As I’m sure JFG would also say, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science isn’t that complicated – we have tried to make it more so than it is. Operationally, the brain turns out to be relatively simple. But between bio chemistry, synapses, dendrites, axons, neurons, layers within columns, micro columns, inter-column connectivity, macro-columns, columnar regions, and the tendency for neurons to migrate to then connect to whatever is possible whenever possible, and the sexual division of temporal labor, expressed as a hemispheric division of labor, it turns out that we were looking for something complicated when the answer was quite simple. Evolution used bilateralism to specialize for sexes and sexes by time, leading the brain as a system of prediction by either feminine empathizing in time or masculine systematizing over time. And even our personality traits (big5/6) are just biases in the before, during, and after state of information processing – again, biased by sex differences in time responsibility. What I have found (and I was happy Musk repeated yesterday in the context of AI) we will feel really silly when in retrospect it becomes clear just how simple intelligence is, just as in my work I’ve explained how simple the universe at every scale is.)

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    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 18:07:01 UTC

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  • Yes, because when we refer to “The Method”, we’re referring to producing sequenc

    Yes, because when we refer to “The Method”, we’re referring to producing sequences of terms as measurements by the process of ‘disambiguation by enumeration, operationalization, aversarial competition, and serialization’, thereby creating a discreet definition of a term.

    Science consists of the means of producing testifiable testimony by production of falsifiable operations. Scientific statesments contain two properties: the formula (description) and search criteria (context).

    There are four sciences: the physical (before state), behavioral (during state), evolutionary (after state), and the formal science (the logics) we describe those states with.

    All four sciences are constructable from the one first principle (first law) of the ternary logic of evolutionary computation by the defeat of entropy by the concentration of energy consisting of positive, negative charges in stable persistent organizations.

    All language consitsts of measurements of levels of ambiguous to unambiguous precision, using the same rule of evolutionary computation by continous recursive disambiguation of ambiguity into meaning: agreement (or not): “stable relations”

    Ergo language is just an extension of the same rules that all the rest of the universe operates by – because thats how our neurons operate, because that’s how molecules operate – etc.

    The “grammars”, from unambiuous (math) to ambiguous(deception) consists of paradigms (permissible dimensions), vocabulary, and syntax for communication by some measurment wiether precise, imprecise, or associative, or misleading.

    Natural Law = The science, and logic of cooperation (non conflict) by the production of a universally commensurable value neutral paradigm, vocabulary, and logic of decidability.

    We use the term natural law because it completes the aristotelian project of the same name. And is the foundation behind the common, concurrent law of europeans and british and american constitutions in particular.

    We have merely ‘scienced’ that law, and plugged holes in that constitution by doing so.

    This completes the wilsonian synthesis of the unification of the sciences.

    So our work is quite important – on the scale of the Darwinian Revlution.

    And social media was one of the most useful research tools because we can ‘experiement’ with language and behavior cheaply and quickly by the collection of demonstrated (good) rather than reported (bad) behavior.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @justinmchase


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-27 16:44:53 UTC

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  • (Draft, in progress, saving for tomorrow) (script) “Q: Curt: What do you mean by

    (Draft, in progress, saving for tomorrow) (script)

    “Q: Curt: What do you mean by a formal operational logic?”

    I’m fundamentally an epistemologist and logician of decidability, and I apply my work to behavioral sciences. In particular, I focus on applying my work to historical explanations of our ‘errors’ (deceits) and then legal and economic reforms to repair them. And I do this to end the conflict of our age, and bring about a possible settlement before the deterministic war that will absolutely hurt us all comes to pass.

    What’s not obvious to you or anyone else, is that this solution to the formal sciences, unifies the sciences, meaning my work explains all the sciences in one simple model. So that means I’ve had to work across all the sciences and disciplines, which is why this effort was so challenging that no university would tolerate the scope of work necessary to produce it without publishing.

    One of the perils of my work, is that it’s extremely technical, yet because it’s of universally popular interest, everyone has an opinion – and speaks (like bots) out of pervasive ignorance, justifying their priors, but lacking any means of comprehending the subject other than their feelings of it. Conversely, you don’t find ordinary people criticizing mathematicians and logicians because the work is not only incomprehensible but unimportant to them. But I touch on ‘the frauds, lies, and falsehoods’ that all of us our invested in, and of course, people who agree need to spend a year learning enough to understand I’m correct, and people who disagree rapidly run from the first substantive argument demonstrating they don’t know what they’re talking about – of if (as we see is common on the left) the double down on ad homs, poisoning the well, and canceling by ridicule, outraging, shrilling, and shaming.

    So now that the research and development is done, and we’re working on the draft for publication, I find I can return to basic explanations. Partly to educate the willing, and partly in defense of the unwilling and ignorant, and partly to silence the abusive.

    List Explanations Covered Below:
    The Four sciences
    The Formal Science
    Positional
    Operational
    Constructive
    First Priciples
    Falsificationary
    Evolutionary Computation
    First Principles
    Disambiguation
    Testimony
    Decidability.

    The Four Sciences:
    1. Formal: Systems (Grammars, or abstract: ‘language’)
    That we use to describe the three other sciences:
    2. Physical (Natural): Continuous Mathematics (Before)
    3. Behavioral (Social) Discrete Computations (During)
    4. Evolutionary: Adversarial Simulations (After)

    Formal Science
    Formal science is a branch of science studying disciplines concerned with abstract structures described by formal systems, such as logic, mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, game theory, systems theory, decision theory, and theoretical linguistics.

    Whereas the natural sciences and social sciences seek to characterize physical systems and social systems, respectively, using empirical methods, the formal sciences use language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by formal systems.

    The formal sciences aid the natural and social sciences by providing information about the structures used to describe the physical world, and what inferences may be made about them.

    In other words, universal grammar is trivial, consisting of rules of continuos recursive disabmiguation by a combination of names that refer to states (nouns, adjectives) or transformations (verbs, adverbs), and agreements (agree/disagree yes/no, true/false).

    As such all systems (grammars of paradigms vocabulary and syntax) from mathematics to procedures, to testimony to ordinary language, fiction to fictionalisms, to lying, to sedition are variations in permissible references that are consistent and correspondent … or not.

    I understand this can be difficult to understand. But what it means is langauge consists of a stream of measurements using the human body, senses, perceptions, and intuitions, and instruments(tools) as ‘natural measurements’. And that we can speak in very precise, practical, or deceptive measurements. And that all human disciplines are constructed of the universal grammar of continuous recursive disambiguation, with nothing other than names of states, changes in state, and tests of equality (agreement). In other words everything we say and do can be imagined as increasingly non-cardinal mathematics.

    (Nominally) Positional Systems of Measurement by Triangulation
    Cardinal vs Ordinal vs Nominal vs Nominally Positional:
    Cardinal (…)
    Ordinal (…)
    Nominal (…)
    Positional (…)
    Triangulation (…)

    Operational (Actions)
    An Operational Logic is a system of logic requiring that all statements must consist of a sequence of objectively (physical) and subjectively(logical) operations that are testable by possibility and repeatability by man.

    Constructive
    A constructive logic is a system of logic stating that mathematical or logical statements are true only when they can be constructed, and as such, proved.

    Falsificationary (Survival)
    (…)
    Evolutionary Computation
    (…)
    First Principles
    (…)
    Disambiguation
    (…)
    Testimony
    (…)
    Decidability.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-23 02:18:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1672066564600807425

  • No. I didn’t. I’m explaining the summary of the research in operational terms. T

    No. I didn’t. I’m explaining the summary of the research in operational terms. That’s my job: synthesis of cross-domain knowledge, by universal commensurability by reduction to construction from first principles (irreducible scientific facts.) But you probably don’t even understand what you just read.

    Conversely, you didn’t demonstrate you can comprehend sites or even disagree, or even opine by countering with an argument or cite yourself.

    This is how I know you’re lying that you have any knowledge whatsoever and are just interjecting feminine disapproval (feminine, leftist, undermining in lieu of competency and argument.)

    No one that follows me ever assumes I don’t know the science. Because I only work from the science.

    Unlike you, who works from fictional narratives and emotions. šŸ˜‰

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    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-19 18:19:50 UTC

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  • DEMONSTRATED INTELLIGENCE The brain is relatively simple operationally. Neurons

    DEMONSTRATED INTELLIGENCE
    The brain is relatively simple operationally. Neurons are quite individually simple, but can produce profound complexity in combination, in layers that peform different functinos, in microcolumns that are the primary processing unit, and and nerual colums tha combine them, and brain regions that connect to one another.
    Neural performance follows the same formula as undersea cables (and all cables for that matter) so the combination of neural organization, neural development, balance between white and grey matter, resulting resistance, and available resources (chemical balance, or health) determine how successful are ‘computations’, connections, durability, and therefore pattern development and memory.
    So IQ is a measure of generalized neural response time by testing a series of faculties divided by age to compensate for the fact that we tend to learn more with age. These tests include subtests for pattern recogition and learned knowlege and the intersection of both.
    There is a slight difference in the organization (development and interconnections) in male and female brains. First, bilateral creatures with bilaterial brains must find a means of decision making (priority) in order to time actions. Second the means of doing so has evolved largely to reflect male predator over time and bias to the empirical prediction of environmental state, vs female prey in time (empathizing) and bias to interpersonal prediction of emotional state.
    This results in the feminine empathizing/verbal vs the masculine systematizing/spatial, and the female hyperconsumptive in time and male hypercapitalizing over time – both of which reflect needs of the reproductive strategy of each (female her offspring) male (brothers and cousins and their territorial resources and collection of females and their offspring).
    And it also results in masculine pursuit of responsibility for commons in order to obtain status despite risks, and female pursuit of hyperconsumption and irresponisiblity for commons by creating demands from men, as a means of evading risk.
    The result is that men invent everything of consequence other than children, and women in politics has been a catastrophe, even if women in the economy has been beneficial.
    Now all of us get better at what challenges and fulfills us without causing us to fail. Ergo despite IQ improving learning times, people with different IQ’s pursue interests that vary so that they satisfy challenge and fulfillment to the best of theire ability and opportunity.
    And so the guy with a 105 IQ that fixes cars is going to be better at it over time than the guy who fixes or advances complex mathematical formulae. Because both would fail at one another’s jobs. The lower IQ at the ability, and the higher IQ at interst.
    Ergo DEMONSTRATED INTELLIGENCE is like applied science: it’s how you apply the resources of your intelligence and knowledge successfully or not.

    Cheers

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    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-17 19:40:47 UTC

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  • How can that be true if prediction is limited to mathematical reducibility? Inst

    How can that be true if prediction is limited to mathematical reducibility? Instead, the question is whether evidence is explainable from first principles: operational (computational) reducibility.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-14 16:30:59 UTC

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  • The reason? The computational provides explanatory power. This is why I emphasiz

    The reason? The computational provides explanatory power. This is why I emphasize an operational understanding of the brain. And it turns out that operationally? Well, it’s not that complicated per se. There is just a lot of it. It’s possible to explain all human behavior today.… https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1646512942786166787


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-26 13:26:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1662087889226813440

  • inĀ·struĀ·menĀ·talĀ·ism NOUN regarding the approach that an activity such as science

    inĀ·struĀ·menĀ·talĀ·ism
    NOUN
    regarding the approach that an activity such as science, law, or education is chiefly an instrument or tool for some practical purpose, rather than in more absolute or ideal terms.
    (utility)

    natĀ·uĀ·ralĀ·ism
    NOUN
    regarding the approach that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted.
    (change)

    reĀ·alĀ·ism
    NOUN
    regarding the approach that objects, properties and relations the world contains, and collectively, the structure of the world exists independently of our thoughts about it or our perceptions of it.
    (referent)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-25 21:31:37 UTC

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