5-1b1a2c0 No theory can exhaust reality

“Compound, multi-component AI systems have become dominant. The persistent, legacy narrative imagines a unified entity—“the AI”—that learns, acts, and pursues goals as an integrated agent. Such entities may be developed, but consider what exists: diverse models composed into systems, copied across machines, proliferating into thousands of distinct roles and configurations. The state of the art is a pool of resources, not a creature. No single person understands everything, and no unified agent controls the whole, yet human-built spacecraft reach the Moon.” – Eric Drexler.

“Of consistent capital change, we may speak where coincident expectations about the quantities and qualities of goods which will pass from one person’s possession into another’s will in effect co-ordinate all these different plans into one single plan, although this “plan” will not exist in any one mind.” – Ludwig Lachmann (p. 83)

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• 5-1b1a2c0.1 Perfect replication is impossible

Related:

• It doesn’t mean you should give up. Just do your best. Because insight is at the edge.
  • 1-1a5a3 Knowledge is about knowing the edge
  • 1-2g3 The sphere of comprehensibility expands infinitely
• There is no substantial difference between social sciences (社会科学) and science proper (自然科学—whatever that means)
  • 3-1a The reality doesn’t have categories, there are only problems to be solved. Be problem-project-oriented. ‘Academic subjects’ are mere social constructs.
• 7-1d2a4 Tech innovation can (and did) drive pragmatic changes in regulation
  • Similar to how networks and derivatives are infinitedevelop
• There will be newer L1s that will integrate L2s currently existing on different chains
  • The sphere of interoperability expands endlessly, as it were (1-2g3 The sphere of comprehensibility expands infinitely)
    • No one chain can solve everything
      • Similar to derivatives (see Elie Ayache)
        • 8-1c2a What matters is the creativity per se, because non-creative parts will be made easier
          • Remember: 5-3b Knowledge creates new frontiers (and new markets)
  • Security by layersdevelop
    • 6-3b2.4 Decentralization is security
    • 8-2d3 You can vote with ballot, wallet, or foot (physical & digital)
• 3-1a5 Any explanation must evoke human creativity (i.e., our ability to come up with explanations) fully—do not evoke others to justify your theory (see this)revisit
  • 1-2g2s8 The unobserved parts of the wider phenomenon have in no way affected what we observe, yet they are essential to its explanation. Causation doesn’t exhaust explanation.
    • 1-2g2t3f Contingency can be only realized when you evoke the multiverse
    • 10-2e4 Other times (in ‘our universe’) are just special cases of other universes. There is no demarcation between other times and other universes in the multiverse.
      • 13-1a3a2e5.1 Money necessarily evokes prices in the past—in barter economy, this is not necessarily the case
      • 13-8a3 Money must evoke the past, but the demand for money lies in the future
  • 3-1a4a1 The whole must be evoked in explaining the parts
  • 10-2d2e9e Evolution of ‘other life-forms’ must evoke the influence of human existence
  • 13-5f1 You must evoke others to explain the interest rate
• 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.”

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• How Popper would use LLMs—it’s doesn’t have to be about AGI