10-2g1f Imitation = limitation (imitation has limitation)

What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end

“I think chatbots have the potential to make people dumber—doctors that use them too much start to forget their actual innate medical knowledge” – Michael Burry

Next:

• 10-2g1f1 Natural selection can only operate on phenotypes (physical attributes) and not on genotypes (the knowledge bearing entity). The same (or similar) phenotypes doesn’t mean they share the same genotype.
  • 2-1b Seeing the unseen (面影・うつろい)
  • 2-1b2e1 Understanding comes from copying the information-knowledge as information-knowledge medium; not from copying the substrate
  • 5-2 What counts cannot be counted
• 10-2g1g Scientific knowledge implies location-time-scale-independent applicability
  • 1-2g2t3c The effect of knowledge creation is significant both within a history (distance-independent) and across the multiverse (convergence)
  • 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.

Related:

• 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
• 2-1a6b ‘Pavlovian association’ & ‘Social proof’ - Understand the arbitrary association formed within your culture. There are no pure indexes for humans.
• 2-1a6c0 If you don’t create an explanation, you will be enmeshed in the situation (analog). You have to transcend your situation-culture-parochiality by explanations (digital). Explanation is the way to universality.
• 9-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individually
• 9-1b0 Knowledge (both explicit and inexplicit) is created individually. You don’t say “I took it from him.” You can’t blame “he took it from me.”
• 9-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)
• 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society
• On imitation
  • 1-2g1d We are universal explainers. We can transcend our biological limitations.
  • 1-2g2j3 Life itself is iconic (imitation-copying)
  • 10-1b4a Learning is imitation and testing
• Think for yourself
  • 3-1a4b2b What is smart at one price is dumb at another
  • 3-1c3c4.1 It’s easy to push a really good idea to wretched excess
  • 3-1c3c4.2 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”
  • 3-1c3c4.3 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful”
  • 10-2g1f3 We can only figure out what they know by what they do (‘performance’), because we can never directly study what people know (‘competence’). To assert that we can is a common error in thinking.
  • 10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.
• Index is easier than symbols
  • 9-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individually