Impredicativity

Software, mathematics, and anything else.

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Intelligence is a lie.

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In a year, life without #Artificial_Intelligence will be as distant as life without a smartphone.

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#Mathematics is a form of ancestor worship.

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Zod is my new god.

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Our obsession with apocalypse narratives is going to help us avoid the ones we know about.

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Disaster movies do more to promote climate change than the most well-researched academic papers.

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Intellectual property is a broken concept that people invented when they didn't know any better, and AI is showing us just how absurd it is.

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Machine learning is a method of converting data into a program. You need a lot of data for it to work though.

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Twitter is basically where I put my craziest thoughts that real life me will never admit to in public.

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The mind is a very clever illusion, but sometimes you can see the seams.

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We can't see any space aliens because there is nothing to see. It's so unimaginably unlikely that tiny, fragile creatures like us will start flying around in interstellar space that none have existed in the universe, in this region of spacetime.

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Humanity will die alone, in its star system, and the universe will not notice we were even here.

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Genetics is a model, if a wildly successful one. In the end, we're all just part of the ongoing physiochemical reaction that is this so very unlikely Earth.

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Humanity is mold on a rock.

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Imagine every object and concept in creation had its own ordinal, into which that object or concept was encoded.

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Imagine someone offered to simulate your life from birth, so that you can subsume simulated-you's knowledge after they die. Would you agree?

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Every provable theorem is a tautology.

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How good humans can get at a task is almost entirely dependent on how easy it is to practice.

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Humanity is a chaotic system.

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The information content of an ordinal or set or concept is in its boundary.