Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-13 Thread steve smith
REC - Glad to see someone else has tapped into this work. I discovered Wells' Murderbot series a year ago or so and what a timely find! I do love the way she presents the advanced "self aiming gun turret"'s form of self (and other) awareness. - SAS On 12/12/24 12:04 PM, Roger Critchlow wr

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
. From: Friam on behalf of glen Date: Friday, December 13, 2024 at 11:07 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy This goes back to the concept of "reasoning", I guess... and that folds back on itself because the token "reason"

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-13 Thread glen
all too prevalent kind of nihilism these days. *From: *Friam on behalf of glen *Date: *Friday, December 13, 2024 at 6:52 AM *To: *friam@redfish.com *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy I know most (all?) of you don't care. But here's a conversation with Clau

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
propaganda. Now that is a destructive and all too prevalent kind of nihilism these days. From: Friam on behalf of glen Date: Friday, December 13, 2024 at 6:52 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy I know most (all?) of you don't care. But her

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-13 Thread glen
I know most (all?) of you don't care. But here's a conversation with Claude starting with the same prompt Pieter used with GPT. It's sad that I had to *feed* the answer to Claude. The summary I posted earlier prompted with Leitgeb's entire paper. Such prompt-responses tend to be more trustworth

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
This is such an intriguing discussion, but regrettably, I don’t have the time to engage fully. I do, however, want to quickly address Glen's question to me from way back at the start of this thread about my prompt on Ramsey semantics and fuzzy logic. My prompt to ChatGPT was: "Please compare in one

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
LLMs are universal interpolators. Pretty much the same thing as the interconnected breadth of knowledge, it seems to me. From: Friam on behalf of Prof David West Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 11:43 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Prof David West
6) Human life span is too limited to consume all available media.* [Twisting glen's ideas about 'context' - no need to consume, all media is already part of the mind-context whole. See also, "enlightenment and omniscience."]* On Thu, Dec 12, 2024, at 1:04 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > > On T

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Prof David West
Prof David West > > *Date: *Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 10:16 AM > *To: *friam@redfish.com > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy > Thank you Roger. Fascinating read. Moravec has evolved considerably from his > *Mind Children *(1990) days when he

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
iful_World) <_blank> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg <_blank> From: Friam > on behalf of Roger Critchlow > Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterm

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Stephen Guerin
t; *Date: *Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy > > Now I really feel complicit. > > > > -- rec -- >

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Seems there are good reasons to replace humans. > > 1) Humans can’t easily travel to new planets due to radiation and hostile > environments. > 2) Our appetite for energy is vast and our decadence unbounded. A rising > standard of living f

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
up in the right way. From: Friam on behalf of glen Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 10:42 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy I still feel like there's an assumption of decoupling lying in wait. Humans are biologically enmeshed i

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread glen
extending it, e.g. AlphaFold. *From: *Friam on behalf of Prof David West *Date: *Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 10:16 AM *To: *friam@redfish.com *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy Thank you Roger. Fascinating read. Moravec has evolved considerably from his /Min

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
human knowledge and extending it, e.g. AlphaFold. From: Friam on behalf of Prof David West Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 10:16 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy Thank you Roger. Fascinating read. Moravec has evolved considerably from

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Prof David West
Thank you Roger. Fascinating read. Moravec has evolved considerably from his *Mind Children *(1990) days when he predicted we would all be "uploaded" to robot bodies by now. The University where I started my teaching career, St. Thomas in St. Paul MN, recently announced a new center https://www

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
ay, December 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy Now I really feel complicit. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:34 AM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: It als

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Roger Critchlow
: *Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 8:25 AM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy > > Hans Moravec kicks off a forum, > https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-d

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
ct: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy Hans Moravec kicks off a forum, https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/ <https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/>, about why the instrumentalist computer science and AI we inherited from DARPA grants isn

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread Roger Critchlow
Hans Moravec kicks off a forum, https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/, about why the instrumentalist computer science and AI we inherited from DARPA grants isn't the only possible version or the only version we need. Life is not entirely composed of self aiming gun turrets and supp

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-12 Thread glen
Interesting. What was your prompt? It's important to remember that Claude and GPT are prone to bullsh¡t. When asked to compare apples to oranges, they will happily and confidently make the comparison even if it's a category error. Leitgeb's footnote might be of use: "This motivation for Ramsif

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-11 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
Different strokes for different okes, indeed. In my realm of AI — and previously in control systems — fuzzy logic has been the trusty spanner for tackling vagueness. Seeking a fresh perspective, I turned to ChatGPT, which delivered this thoughtful comparison: "Ramsey semantics and fuzzy logic both

[FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

2024-12-11 Thread glen
https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIRAS-3 via https://mastodon.social/@dailyn...@zirk.us I found this paper by Weinberg's post to Mastodon through the write up of Leitbeg's projects here: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/85399322?language=en I didn't find any papers on scholar or philpapers talki