Tag Archives: Initiative

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 2 Re: Mathstodon • Joeri Sebrechts JS: That’s not how it works.  The model lacks agency.  It is a machine whose gears are cranked by the user’s prompt.  It can ask questions, but … Continue reading →

Re: Terry Tao • PCAST Working Group on Generative AI Invites Public Input My Comment — I think a lot of people who’ve been working all along on AI, intelligent systems, and computational extensions of human capacities in general are … Continue reading →

Re: Scott Aaronson • Should GPT Exist? • My Comment The more fundamental problem I see here is the failure to grasp the nature of the task at hand, and this I attribute not to a program but to its … Continue reading →

Re: Mathstodon • Nicole Rust NR: Computations or Processes — How do you think about the building blocks of the brain? I keep coming back to this thread about levels, along with others on the related issue of paradigms, as … Continue reading →

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Flashback Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 4 A quick review of the highlights so far, and then I’ll continue from the standpoint I indicated last time.  As … Continue reading →

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Flashback Re: FB Comment • Daniel Everett Dan Everett commented on my post about Russell’s question, “How shall we describe the logical form of a belief?”, giving … Continue reading →

In the passage quoted in the previous post Bertrand Russell addresses the question, “What is the logical structure of the fact which consists in a given subject understanding a given proposition?” and he selects a proposition of the form to demonstrate his … Continue reading →

Another passage from Russell further illustrates what I see as a critical juncture in his thought.  The graph-theoretic figure he uses in analyzing a complex of logical relationships brings him to the edge of seeing the limits of dyadic analysis … Continue reading →

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves … Julius Caesar • 1.2.141–142 Signs have a power to inform, to lead our thoughts and thus our actions in accord with reality, to make reality our friend.  … Continue reading →

Re: Daniel Everett DE: I am trying to represent two readings of the three juxtaposed sentences in English.  The first reading is that the judge and the jury both know that Malcolm is guilty.  The second is that the judge knows … Continue reading →