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   The Starmaker to starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
   Re: "The Fundamental Joke of Logic" (1/3   
   26 Nov 25 22:16:14   
   
   XPost: sci.math, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:15:35 -0800, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >>   
      
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