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Tom Tabaczynski's avatar

Given the interest in philosophy I might record some tutorials on basic philosophy of science.

You're being very poetic but poetry is poetry, not philosophy.

Yeah, the paradigm shift view is interesting. Eg., what's been pretty much unnoticed is the paradigm shift in cognitive psychology from cognitivist 'serial processing' to distributed processing/connectionist model of the mind.

It has radical consequences that we're seeing in AI and machine learning.

But when people finally notice the radical consequences for human learning, society and economics, it will be far more revolutionary.

But is it really a 'paradigm' shift where you have theoretical frameworks which are 'incommensurable'?

If the new framework can account for a wider range of phenomena and there's progress then it's not really incommensurability, and so the postmodern argument that paradigm shifts lead to relativism is not right.

Relativism insists on plurality of 'truths' not 'the truth', and plurality of 'knowledges' instead of 'knowledge'.

Theoretical progress is close enough for empirical sciences like psychology or anthropology.

But for economics, it seems that empiricism is completely inadequate, and positivist economics is a Keynesian/MMT disaster.

Praxeology predicts that all countries that engage in expansion of the money supply end up with a predatory state, predatory financial system, and a permanent state of stagflation, and that includes both the West and the East.

No one escapes the iron laws of praxeology. As for nationalism and masculinity, that sounds gay to me. I prefer patriarchy and expertise.

My take on connectionist theory of mind is that managing creativity is not feasible on the grounds of the non-linear nature of human learning which is the consequence of connectionist model of the mind, whereas management is inherently linear.

Hence, I'm skeptical of the idea that Deepseek is a manifestation of Chocom genius.

I suspect that it's more of a Deepfake.

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Netizen X's avatar

ok jew.

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