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Realizing that knowledge is provisional moves us further and further away from the dream of so many philosophies: finding a foundation to knowledge that can offer certainty.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
So we have reached a paradox: The commitment to a totally scientific view of the world has led to theories that may be unscientific, according to Popper’s definition of science. In a sense, the miracle believers and the miracle nonbelievers have found a bit of common ground. This is not to say that the transcendent experience of miraculous phenomen
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The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician | The New Yorker
Rivka Galchennewyorker.comSam Altman asks: why are scaling laws a property of the universe?
Daniel Selsam says intelligence emerges from compression—and the universe’s knowledge is a fractal you can keep mining.
In other words, scaling laws keep working because important concepts are sparse but inexhaustible—and inte... See more
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