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   The Starmaker to ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com   
   Re: "The Fundamental Joke of Logic" (1/3   
   26 Nov 25 14:15:35   
   
   XPost: sci.math, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:58:47 -0800, Ross Finlayson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 11/23/2025 01:36 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >> On 11/21/2025 11:42 PM, Maciej Wo?niak wrote:   
   >>> On 11/21/2025 9:09 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>> On 11/21/2025 09:56 AM, Maciej Wo?niak wrote:   
   >>>>> On 11/21/2025 6:15 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 11/21/2025 08:56 AM, Maciej Wo?niak wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 11/21/2025 5:41 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 11/20/2025 10:03 PM, Maciej Wo?niak wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> On 11/21/2025 2:49 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> On 11/20/2025 01:10 PM, The Starmaker wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Sam Altman, of Open Ai said, said, said that Ai..."They   
   >>>>>>>>>>> hallucinate   
   >>>>>>>>>>> ALL THE TIME!"   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> *ALL* the time.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> "ALL the time"   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> So, everything below that RF posted are ...all hallucinations!   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Lucy in the sky with AI...   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> GG in the sky with diamonds...   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:10:06 -0800, The Starmaker   
   >>>>>>>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> I see you edited out all the ...hallucinations!   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Maybe he just doesn't know how logic according to reason works.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> The, "natural language understanding", or lack thereof,   
   >>>>>>>>>> includes a mental model of reasoning,   
   >>>>>>>>>> which of course is readily polluted by contradictory instructions,   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> "polluted" with being real instead being   
   >>>>>>>>> as perfect as you would like it to be.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Those are "non-logical".   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> There's a difference between "non-logical" and "ignorant".   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> There are limits to knowledge, yet, there are absolutes.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The "ideals" mathematically are yet "practically"   
   >>>>>>>> what is to be attained for what is obtained,   
   >>>>>>>> the "ideals" physically are usually as after "reductionism",   
   >>>>>>>> about the "super-classical" and often enough "non-linear",   
   >>>>>>>> then that it's agreeable that mathematics is easier than physics,   
   >>>>>>>> yet that mathematics _owes_ physics the "proper ideals".   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Natural philosophers have that a theory of the world   
   >>>>>>>> as a physics is potentialistic, that it's a sum-of-histories   
   >>>>>>>> _and_ a sum-of-potentials, and a least-action / least-gradient,   
   >>>>>>>> perfect continuum.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The "super-classical" it's usually called things like   
   >>>>>>>> super-fluidity, super-conductivity, and these kinds of   
   >>>>>>>> things, with regards to ideals like "immovable" and "unstoppable",   
   >>>>>>>> flow and flux and these kinds of things, "ideal components".   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Seeing some sticks you can start dreaming   
   >>>>>>> of a perfect rigid rod. You may think about   
   >>>>>>> it as about "rod by itself"; neverthless   
   >>>>>>> it doesn't exist and never will, though   
   >>>>>>> the concept may be useful. Neither your   
   >>>>>>> "pure logic by itself" does. Samely like   
   >>>>>>> with "perfect rod" - you can't say how it   
   >>>>>>> could work - because it couldn't.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> The "distinction" between "ideal philosopher" and   
   >>>>>> "practical physicist" is from many perspectives their projections.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "It's all relative" still has that "all" is an absolute -   
   >>>>>> "It-all's absolute".   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You can connect the letters into words   
   >>>>> and then words into phrases in many ways,   
   >>>>> but no matter how you do it - outside of   
   >>>>> human culture they're just meaningless   
   >>>>> streams of meaningless symbols.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> They can interact with our brains and affect   
   >>>>> our decisions. In a very sophisticated and   
   >>>>> highly organized way.  Apart  of that  - there   
   >>>>> is nothing  important  about them.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'd recommend looking for a copy of the "Dictionary of   
   >>>> the History of Science".   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I know the history of science enough to recognize   
   >>> a pattern I'm familiar with from elsewhere.   
   >>>   
   >>> You know, when I'm encoding some objective soft   
   >>> into a computer - classes and objects I've planned   
   >>> appear in its memory, having some properties I've   
   >>> planned too. Science is doing something   
   >>> similar to us. Well, the whole concept of   
   >>> "objective programming" is something we   
   >>> copied from - science and similar things.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You know, the standard linear curriculum has to   
   >> be a lot of things to a lot of people. Then, the   
   >> fact that it's often a merely-partial invincibly-ignorant   
   >> inductive half-account after the severe abstraction the   
   >> mechanical reduction, is lost on a lot of people.   
   >> Something like "Dictionary of the History of Science",   
   >> and I haven't read "A Dictionary of the History of Science",   
   >> can help a lot showing that any major significant development   
   >> in mathematics or physics in thousands of years, is one of   
   >> two things: a major conceptual development or a   
   >> mollifying compromise downgrade. Also usually both.   
   >>   
   >> So, the idea of that there's a paradox-free reason   
   >> at all, sort of results at least one fact about truth   
   >> to begin, that it's true there's truth and it's true,   
   >> and that nothing that is true disagrees with itself,   
   >> yet even that results ex falso nihilum instead of that   
   >> "nothing, that is 'true', disagrees with itself", has   
   >> that as one reasoner put it "the fundamental joke of   
   >> logic is that logic is not a joke, and it's not funny",   
   >> has at least it's good.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Then, since quasi-modal logic is shown to be a bad joke,   
   >> then modern mathematics has at least a dozen ways to   
   >> show it keeps hitting itself, and the premier theories   
   >> of physic have been falsified seven sigmas and 120 orders   
   >> of magnitude with regards to each other, the the idea of   
   >> turning that over and filling it out as simply like a   
   >> hermit and guru with the greatest wisdom in the world,   
   >> that seems fair.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >The non-standard in arithmetic is about infinity, pretty much.   
   >   
   >Mathematical infinity, as everybody knows it, is supreme   
   >among numbers, while as well, in reflection, about zero.   
   >   
   >Then, why it's "extra-ordinary" and "super-standard" instead   
   >of non-standard, is similarly to how any kind of geometry   
   >is "super-Euclidean", not "non-Euclidean", then as with   
   >regards to various algebras and their discontinuities   
   >introduced, likes Connes' or normed rings, the super-standard   
      
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