The soft-fantasy mindset is not a full-on fantasy You don’t believe any random nonsense that’s pleasant to imagine, Incoherence, conflict with the consensus, conflict with the authorities’ position — are all enough to dissuade you from proudly asserting your belief in some magical phenomenon you’re more sceptical than that: maybe divination doesn’t exactly …
Tag: Ignorance
Reality Is Intelligent
What is intelligence? It’s the ability to solve problems, right? We observe, we learn, we reason — and then we find the solution But what if someone found the solution WITHOUT going through this process? Is that person intelligent? Is that intelligent? It’s obviously not unintelligent — someone solving a problem Even if …
AI Hate Is Love Of Stupidity
There’s cognition Computers were already “artificial intelligence”. That’s what a computer is. It processes information Modern AI algorithms are a far more advanced, more general version of it NOT AGI yet, obviously, but far more general than ordinary computers, All that is INTELLIGENCE, all that is COGNITION If you’re stupid, you can’t be bothered …
“Neutral” Is Usually The Best Attitude
“I don’t know” is usually the best answer, Because why would you know? The world is infinitely complicated If you’re interacting with the world — you should be stumped all the time Likewise “NEUTRAL” is usually the best attitude For the same reason Usually you don’t know what you’re dealing with Not entirely You …
The Modalities Of Understanding, And The Trap Of Borrowed Comprehension
You can read or hear something, Let’s assume that thing to be true, or useful Now there’s a number of things that can happen One option is that you DON’T UNDERSTAND it At which point — you can either be aware of this failure of comprehension, OR NOT The latter is of course …
There Are No Gurus — Only Experts
There are no gurus Only experts We distrust experts Because experts are sometimes wrong, or corrupted What a joke It’s like distrusting air because sometimes it smells Doesn’t mean you should stop breathing Experts are still the best we have By definition, that’s what expert is — the most qualified, educated, capable person …
Changing Your Mind Doesn’t Make It Right
The default state of knowledge is UNKNOWN Therefore, when you realise what you thought you knew was false — you usually just return to that pitiful state of NOT knowing Sometimes you at least learn what is NOT But often you don’t even know that Often the only thing you learned is that you: …
What They Don’t See (Is What Matters)
Often it’s not what you see It’s what you DON’T SEE Of course, with knowledge – knowing what you DON’T KNOW is considered a virtue Everyone knows something But mistakes are made when you think you know something – but you don’t If you know you don’t know – you can work around it, …
UNLEARNING
Which hand do you brush your teeth with? Try switching to the other hand It’s not so comfortable, is it Now, imagine that the other hand is actually your stronger hand, It ought to perform this task better, But you’re not going to believe it, are you? You trained your other hand to brush your …
Degrees of Probability (Knowledge), Degrees of Stupidity
That which is wrong has to be proven wrong in but a single way And that which is right — has to NOT be proven wrong…. and hopefully after being subjected to a lot of testing So is there more WRONGS or RIGHTS, in this world? Ultimately, there’s just extremely lot of very improbable, and …