BETA
Top 30 Most Popular Tags on the Mind Net
p/Investing 14 the mind net 8 End of History 8 p/The Mind Net 7 p/brain 6 EDSC 6 AI 6 p/investing 5 feature 4 theMindNet 4 p/Collective Intelligence 3 Philosophy 3 The mind net 3 free will 2 investing 2 intergroup aggression 2 classroom 2 Google 2 AGI 2 ECDS 2 p/algebra of mind 2 Education 2 nvda 1 Ukrainian 1 information 1 Radical Transparency 1 Putin 1 diplomacy 1 narrative 1 network 1
Click on tags to toggle selection and filter
What's new the Mind Net.
Note
Is it really the fault of conservative party that their politics are less tolerant and sometimes dangerous?
Or is it just because they have to cater to their constituents who are backward and less self awareness of their own mob instincts? Thoughts from reading the coming of the third Reich, the conservative party adopt antisemitism because it's popular among their constituents or one can even say that the constituents demanded it. The danger of the mobs and demagogues have always been a central risk in the Athens democracy, the Roman Republic as well as the Venetian Republic,
Note
Rorty destroys the image of Glass of Essense (part of it being the mirror of nature)
I would establish a new image - the image of agents. and this image is incorrigible priori. In this image, there is no necessity (or inevitability) of a single mirror of nature. all the agents need is to be able to predict the world (self included) in all kinds of contexts.
Note
Seeking accurate representations has its own merit
It helps isolate us for desire infused biases. Although indeed it's not the final goals.
Hypothesis
The main purpose of a priori is not its truthfulness
But the fact that it's ineluctable. That is can serve as framework or foundation for building consensus among the community of inquiriers.
Philosophy
Hypothesis
The main reason we feel that the usage of the word should is fundamentally justified
Is because of the usage of should in the sense that an agent should act to maximize the possibility of achieving what he wants
Philosophy
Hypothesis
The vocabulary of agency is inescapable
Because without agency there is no point talking or thinking about anything.
Rorty Philosophy Pragmatism
Hypothesis
A pragmatic definition of determinism
Determinism can only be meaningful when it has practical implications, that is when the development of a system can be predicted in some way. When such practical implications become impossible, due to the impracticality of predicting highly complex systems at any level, determinism is no longer meaningful.
free will philosophy
Hypothesis
A pragmatist definition of free will
When it's more convenient to treat a system as if that it's decision process cannot be externalized (or predictable from such an externalization), this system possess the property of having a free will.
free will
Hypothesis
Only monopoly can make money
Call it moot or anything. It's all about monopoly. Competition is for losers.
86.1%
Investing
Hypothesis
There is no moral progress in the relativistic moral non-objectivism view
The very concept of moral progress implies an ideal morality. This is, by definition, contradictory to the relativistic moral non-objectivism view.
Hypothesis
To accommodate the existence of moral disagreement and moral progress, relativistic non-objectivism has some explaining to do.
Prediction
A VC boom in LLM based startups in 2023
90.2%
p/Investing
Observation
A new Bubble is forming for AI Startups
p/Investing
Hypothesis
Logic faculties in humans are learned
Human brains have no biological apparatus for logic thinking (or, more broadly speaking, system 2 thinking). This is in contrast with the fact that human language faculties are more likely supported by prewired circuitries.
Hypothesis
The logic instinct
All human languages are logical in the sense that the meaning of linguistic expressions corresponding to disjunction (e.g. English *or*, Chinese *huozhe,* Japanese *ka*) conform to the meaning of the logical operator in classical logic, inclusive- *or*. It is highly implausible, we argue, that children acquire the (logical) meaning of disjunction by observing how adults use disjunction. [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01380.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01380.x)
Terms of Service Privacy Policy About
Loading...