Fact-checking Trumps statements is a meaningless endeavor. What he says has no relation to epistemology.
Inquiry cures ignorance
We are not always great at learning from each other, together with each other, from history, or from other documented bodies of knowledge. We too often subject too poor models too soon to reality. An important reason is that we seem to have an aversion to inquiry.
Is Trumpism fascism?
A comparison of Trump’s policies and executive orders with a classic definition of fascism by Robert Paxton.
The Buddha equation
There is some deep wisdom popping out from Jensen’s inequality.
What is true?
Truth is instrumental to the survival of democracy and indeed the survival of our very species. In this post I try to define what truth is.
Knowledge as a model of the world
Given that the main use of knowledge is to navigate through the world and through life, we can say that ontologically knowledge is our model of the world.
A humanistic world through a mechanistic world-view
A mechanical world-view without belief in free will leads to a more humanistic world.
It takes a human to find the dragons
Without intrinsic motivation, the ability to hypothesize beyond training, or the capacity for real-world experimentation, AI will remain a tool that processes human-created information rather than a creator of new knowledge.
Does an AI produce knowledge?
The LLM can interpolate within the knowledge space it’s been trained on, filling in gaps by blending concepts in novel ways. However, it will stay within the convex hull of its training data, constrained by the boundaries of what it has learned.
Open and closed loop learning
Closed-loop learning is almost a law of nature. It is applied by all sustainable natural systems and in most successful human endeavors.
Despite the obvious benefit or even need of closed-loop learning, we fail to implement it in many contexts that would clearly benefit from it.