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.

Related:

• 1-2g2j1b Accuracy in virtual reality = The relationship between theory and experiment in science. That is, you can never prove-experience-measure-certify that it’s accurate-true program.
• 9-4b3b1 Popper - ‘We let our ideas die in our place’ (another difference between memes vs genes)revisit

The Turing test is one such behavioristic mistakeBehaviorism

• 1-2g1b What matters is the explanation, and not what you can see
• 1-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)
  • E.g., exams can’t exhaustively measure its students’ competence, but it’s the one of few ways by which we can indirectly test them via their performances.develop

We must interpret other humans:

• 2-1a1a1b ‘Hanlon’s razor’ - We (they) are dumber and thus less ill-intent than we think we (they) are
• 9-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individually
• 9-1b2b Technology, knowledge, and people constitute symbols (including relations, because relations are also symbols)
  • 10-2g3a Everything is (or more precisely, became) symbol. Social values-knowledge-structures themselves are symbols represented by non-explicit forms (e.g., traditions and habits) interpreted non-explicitly (‘流れ込む情報’).

In praxeological terms:

• 13-6f Praxeology is concerned with that part of value scales that can be ascertained from actions
• 13-8a2b Prices do not exhaust value scales, but value scales can be ascertained only through prices in money economy
• 13-8a2c Value scales are ascertainable from the real actions, not vice versa—because value scales cannot be exhausted

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