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: …
Tag: Learning
Engineer Your Models Of Reality, Or Stay Stupid
If you ever studied anything complex — you know it is necessary to gradually develop one’s understanding complex like physics, math, respectable chess ranking, Even less complex subjects you don’t learn overnight, like driving a car Why would your own ideas be any different? Ideas and opinions and views Why would they magically develop …
Winning Alone Makes You Clueless
To approximate reality — you must measure it Measuring is done AGAINST something. It’s all relative E.g. cat is small next to a wolf, but large next to a mouse If you only win — you’re measuring only against mice Which is great You get the information what you’re LARGER than But you get …
The Consilience of MAINSTREAM (Mainstream is Underrated)
“consilience (also convergence of evidence or concordance of evidence) is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can “converge” on strong conclusions” This also matches my observation about society, collective, the hive-mind, and leads me to the following formula: CONTRARIANS on average < MAINSTREAM on average < nuanced takes of intelligent informed …
AI is Intelligent AND Makes Us Super-Intelligent
AI is of course intelligence — “artificial” intelligence It’s not human intelligence yet, of course It exceeds us at some domains — and is utterly helpless in others (it exceeds either when: -there are clear rules — it can then “play with itself” and figure out optimal strategy (e.g. chess) -or when there’s mountains …
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 …
What Is A NEW Perspective, Actually?
What is a NEW perspective? New perspective is one of the two things: Someone looking further, or deeper, or broader Or someone looking from a different angle, different perspective Looking deeper, further, broader, is a function of lens, is it not? And what are the characteristics of the lens? Maybe it can zoom …
EPISTEMIC LUCK
It’s not merely that some are smarter than others And it’s not merely that some get more lucky than others There’s also the possibility to DO SMART THINGS by chance So some people are born more fit Let’s just say more smart, not merely in theory but in practice That in and of itself …
Knowledge Is One Objective Edge You Can Have
Knowledge is overrated Knowledge will not redeem you, knowledge will not be your salvation And knowledge won’t do shit for you, you have to DO things yourself Knowledge is UNDERRATED Knowledge is underrated too Most people are ignorant cunts Most people are incompetent dilettantes KNOWLEDGE HAS VALUE Knowledge is USEFUL I wrote …
Knowledge From TESTING, Knowledge From Congruence – Epistemic Loop
For all purposes, you know something to be TRUE — if it WORKS. e.g. you know it’s true that your cart is useful — it helps you move logs It works and you TESTED it. But what do you do when you can’t test it? Well then you look for that which is already …