This post could be considered a continuation of my previous post, "AI and the ludic fallacy." Bear with me, as this post will make some important yet philosophical points. There are many people who cringe when they hear the p-word – I have been known to be such a person myself. As with many fields out there, there is a lot of low quality material (namely BS) in philosophy. However, I have also seen many incredibly insightful philosophy pieces, and it seems to be a helpful discipline whenever one needs to get out of the "box".
This post is about one such box.
An Example Box (as seen from another Box)
A brief digression from AI to illustrate where we're going. Many successful disciplines such as math and logic operate within a carefully designed box — a set of axioms from which truths are derived. Once a decent set of axioms is established, very elegant and exciting theories can be built. Some of these theories may be successful in modeling physical reality: classical math built on set theory is so successful that after working within it, one may be tempted to think that reality is the set theory … Read more...