Uh oh. Originalism rears its head again! Are our aphorisms alive or dead? ... yet another manifestation of the cognitive biases fulminated by metaphor. You Lex Fridman fans will appreciate that one of my favorite youtubers also likes Fridman: Metatron. Even worse, he thinks Fridman has a [cough] soothing voice. But one of the things I like about this guy is he does try to consider the context of any historical reference he analyzes. E.g.
https://youtu.be/yPcljDGkg_8?si=-oKuhRoBTXrbLw6g I like Metatron's content just a bit better than Th3Birdman (e.g. https://youtu.be/2lgmvraCq1g?si=93tbm8nbO-6Bx-ul) ... maybe because his typical topics are more aligned with my pastimes. But Th3Birdman is less prone to show his face ... and has a much better voice. 6 to this guy; half a dozen to that guy. Pfft. Anyhoo, back to arguing about words. On 10/8/24 21:22, Stephen Guerin wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com <mailto:jonzing...@gmail.com>> wrote: Since we are picking on aphorisms, I wish to add criticism to "all models are wrong, some are useful". To a great extent, the qualities of the thing being modelled matters. For instance, natural numbers do have crisp, compact properties and can be modelled by sets. To claim that models are never correct is to deny that bisimulation ever exists between machines. It is fine, I suppose, as a world view, but proving bisimulation between things also seems fine. "Yes, I agree that bisimulation can exist between models or mathematical systems. The original aphorism is about the limits of statistical (or any) models to 'bisimulate' reality."
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